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- Citation Database Manager version 1.5
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-
- !Citation is a database manager which allows the storage, searching,
- sorting and formatting of citations for direct output into technical
- papers. It should prove useful to anyone involved in writing papers which
- require extensive lists of references.
-
- I have always found that collating citations proves to be the most
- tedious and error prone part of scientific paper writing. Furthermore
- each journal dictates that its citations should be in a (generally
- unique) specific format so that when one re-submits a paper to another
- journal all the citations have to be re-formatted. !Citation handles
- output in any format specified by the user so that once a Subset of
- references has been selected from within the database, the output format
- can be altered ad nauseum. Selection of citation subsets is facilitated
- by author/subject/keyword searching as well as plain old manual
- selection.
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- Bulk importing of references from any text/ASCII file is supported so
- that one can collect references, say on your Psion/Pocket book or any PC
- as you go along, for later addition to your reference database. Support
- is also provided for the direct import of MEDLARS formatted references
- from computerized databases.
-
- Data is stored in dedicated library/application directories in a manner
- similar to the early Impression documents. It is easy to build up
- libraries of different references and use them in !Citation by simply
- dragging them to the iconbar icon. It also makes backup of such a
- valuable commodity a doddle (so no excuses).
-
- I long used a general purpose database for my references but this proved
- too limited for such specific use. I noted that packages are available
- for other platforms ("Papyrus" for the PC and "Endnote" for the Mac - at
- a price!) and tried to interest several software houses in providing a
- similar application for Acorn machines, believing this to be a
- commercially viable opportunity - but to no avail. So I eventually got
- round to writing one - and here it is. I hope you find it useful.
-
- In this program I have tried to make extensive use of the drag and drop
- facilities offered by RISCOS and not available on other platforms. As
- well as bulk drag'n'drop import, text can be freely dragged in and out of
- various fields for editing in other applications. Also the "Export icon"
- (green arrow icon, top right of main viewer) allows dragging of author
- names directly into your paper and !Citation works out the appropriate
- format eg. "[Dawson, 1989]", "[Radulescu et al, 1995]" or "[Smith &
- Jones, 1901]".
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- See the Manual supplied with this package for further information.
-