Ian Barton <address@hidden> writes:
On 19/11/13 01:40, Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
Not sure "citational" is even a word, but hopefully it conveys my meaning!
I've been using LaTeX for academic writing and reading for quite some
time, with emacs as my editor. I'm pretty familiar with managing a .bib
file containing all the references I've collected, and using it in LaTeX
\cite commands.
I've come to org-mode more recently. I'm trying to imagine how I might
use it to manage my "personal library." I have a directory full of pdf
files, each a downloaded article. Some articles I reference in papers I
write; others I just read and want to keep. I also have a .bib file
where I put the citational material for all those articles. Whenever I
download an article, I add its entry to my .bib file. I tend to manage
this with JabRef because it searches Medline so easily, but I also will
edit the .bib file directly when necessary.
I like the idea of an org file containing the citational information
(authors, title, journal, etc) *plus* links to the pdfs on my hard
drive, or on the internet. I could also include my notes about the
articles. But what would that org file look like? How do I insert a
reference to an article into the org file which contains the article I
am writing?
I'd be grateful for any explanations, or links to tutorials.
Can't help with managing the citations in org, as the last time I had
to do this I was using a card index file:)
However, to address your other questions one way of doing this would
be to create an org file with a heading for each article:
* Article 1.
Here are some notes.
* Article 2
My notes
I've been using such an org file for most of grad school and I couldn't
be happier with the results. I have a single reading.org file with one
top-level entry for each article I read. Currently at 533 articles
(many still tagged TODO) and 16,558 lines.
To create each headline, I first copy the bibtex information onto my
clipboard, then I call `org-bibtex-yank' which converts the bibtex
information into a headline with properties. E.g.,
* Software mutational robustness
:PROPERTIES:
:TITLE: Software mutational robustness
:BTYPE: article
:CUSTOM_ID: schulte2013software
:YEAR: 2013
:ISSN: 1389-2576
:JOURNAL: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
:DOI: 10.1007/s10710-013-9195-8
:URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10710-013-9195-8
:PUBLISHER: Springer US
:KEYWORDS: Mutational robustness; Genetic programming; Mutation
testing; Proactive diversity; N-version programming; Neutral landscapes
:AUTHOR: Schulte, Eric and Fry, ZacharyP. and Fast, Ethan and Weimer,
Westley and Forrest, Stephanie
:PAGES: 1-32
:LANGUAGE: English
:END:
file:papers/10.1007_s10710-013-9195-8.pdf
The arXiv preprint is up at http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4224.
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