Short software review: Referencer
Friday, April 4th, 2008I’ve been writing my thesis in LaTeX. It’s really magnificent, because I can focus on the content rather than all of the manual formatting that using a standard word processor (like OpenOffice) would require. Things are made even easier for me because my school provides a LaTeX template file for theses.
One thing that is a bit cumbersome, however, is handling references. To date, I’ve just been using Hubmed to export BibTex citations for any papers, and pasting them into a running BibTex file. This does not deal well with duplicates, and is cumbersome to search rapidly.
Today, I saw a link to Referencer (via Lifehacker) and decided to give it a go. Just a note here before people go scrambling to the comment box: I do know about other packages such as EasyBib and JabRef. I’ve tried them, and just can’t seem to get into them for some reason.
