Research paper tools for mac
I am working on my first large (for me) research paper, I have found PDF services and print to pdf, but one thing that stumps me, I would like a manager of bibleography and maybe a formatter for APA, Any ideas?
PS, I will use this once - maybe twice so I would perfer a free-bee.
oh yea, Any idea as to why the EBSCOhost database(s) dont work in any browser eccept IE on the mac but runs fine in konqueror and Firefox on other platforms?
PS, I will use this once - maybe twice so I would perfer a free-bee.
oh yea, Any idea as to why the EBSCOhost database(s) dont work in any browser eccept IE on the mac but runs fine in konqueror and Firefox on other platforms?
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Amorya
Don't get me wrong, I *live* in TeXShop and BibDesk, but that's only because I can.
a_greer, head over to versiontracker.com and look up those two above apps. Installing TeXShop will walk you through the rather large, complicated, and thankfully automated installation of the entire LaTeX distribution. Then you can go grab BibDesk, and start entering your biblio information. BibDesk allows drag and drop of already formatted references, and it'll do a good job of parsing them out, but I don't know if it'll support what you have access to.
Also, when you're done, you'll have a PDF of your bibliography, not formatted text you can drag and drop into other apps like Word or Pages. (I suppose you *could* select the text with the Preview text tool, and drag that over, then do formatting manually, but oy.)
EndNote is the commercial product that swears it integrates with Word, et al, but I've heard nothing but complaints about the last couple of updates to it. Luckily, though, they have a fairly cheap student version if you want to just use it a few times.
But BibTeX has the same problem so ... use LaTeX and BibTeX.