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- Title: CITATION
- Author: Dawson (DawsonTP@Cardiff.ac.uk)
- Version: 2.0
- Title From: Documentation
- Author From: Documentation
- Version From: Documentation
- Supplier: Dawson (DawsonTP@Cardiff.ac.uk)
- Date: 09/07/96
- Keywords: Database management systems ; Bibliography
- Shareware: Yes
- Machine: Archimedes
- Operating system: RISCOS
- Memory requirements:
- Peripherals needed:
- Other s/ware needed:
- Directory: micros/arch/riscos/d110
- Date mounted/updated: 21/07/96
- File names: citation.arc
- Unarchived files: 43
- Unarchived size: 1663 kbytes
- Omissions:
- See also:
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- Acquiring the package:
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- Download the archive file(s) and extract using SparkPlug 2
- (see the "tools_help" file in micros/arch/riscos/tools for further info).
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- Description:
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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. It is now in its 8th iteration and version 2 includes most of
- the features present on commercial bibliography managers plus some more that
- are only possible through RISCOS.
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- 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 using a
- simple script language so that once a Subset of references has been selected
- from within the database, the style output format can be altered ad nauseum and
- saved for repeated use. 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 a 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 & BIDS computerized database output.
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- Data is stored in dedicated library 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. Unlimited abstract fields are also available. 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 file drag'n'drop import, text
- can be freely dragged in and out of various fields for editing in other
- applications as well as the dragging of author names for in-text citations.
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