References 4+

Name: References
Price: 89000 IDR
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: Benjamin Burton

Benjamin Burton

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Deskripsi

Carry your BibTeX libraries with you on your iPad and iPhone!

A BibTeX library is a collection of bibliographic references (papers, books, reports, etc.), designed to work with the LaTeX typesetting system. Each library is stored in a specially-formatted text file (typically ending in .bib), which you can create with your favourite text editor.

The References app gives you an easy way to browse through and interact with your BibTeX libraries. You can scroll, search, follow links, and view file attachments. In particular:

- The app creates links from DOIs, MathSciNet references, ACM IDs, and of course URLs.
- The app understands elementary LaTeX, so if your titles and/or abstracts contain markup or mathematics (and if your LaTeX is simple enough) then the app can display them nicely.
- If you used BibDesk or JabRef to create your library, the app can view your file attachments (e.g., PDFs that you have attached to your references).
- You can view references grouped by keywords, if you use the Keywords field in your BibTeX libraries. You can also view all of your smart/static groups from BibDesk, and your dynamic/static groups from JabRef.
- The app supports BibLaTeX libraries as well as classic BibTeX.

The References app can open BibTeX libraries from anywhere on your device. In particular, you can use iCloud Drive to keep them synchronised between your devices.

FILE ATTACHMENTS:

To view file attachments (e.g., PDFs), the path to each file should be included in the corresponding entry in your BibTeX library. You can do this using the specially encoded Bdsk-File-* fields (as used by BibDesk), or the plain text File field (as used by JabRef). If you are writing your BibTeX files by hand, just add a File field giving the location of the attachment, such as File = {../PDFs/foo.pdf}.

You can tell References where to find these attachments by linking folders in your app settings. The app will look for your attachments within these folders – for example, if you link your Documents folder then the app will be able to match the BibTeX field {../PDFs/foo.pdf} to a real location such as Documents/PDFs/foo.pdf or Documents/foo.pdf.

The app is able to read attachments stored on your device, or on iCloud Drive, or on third-party providers including Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Nextcloud or OneDrive. If you are having trouble viewing attachments from a third-party provider, please mail the References developer with the details.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

To learn more about BibTeX, see http://www.bibtex.org/ .

18 Jun 2024

Versi 3.2

New features:
- Supports x-bdsk://citekey URLs once again (see Settings → Searching).
- You can now change the keyword separator (see Settings → Styles).
- Added a troubleshooting page to the help browser.
- Redesigned the settings panel to use simpler language.

Issues fixed:
- On some devices, .bib files were greyed out because other apps were claiming the .bib extension.
- Sometimes .bib files on third-party file providers (e.g., Google Drive or OneDrive) would not open because they were not properly downloaded.

Other:
- Moved the About page from the settings panel to the help browser.
- If your .bib files live on Google Drive, they might still be grayed out (even after the fixes described above). There is a new advanced setting to work around this.

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A manager or a viewer only?

I thought this app can edit entries in .bib file but it only simply provides "an alternative way to access documents from Files app" which is even a free app Mendeley can do it better than this app. Please take a look at other apps and make a better description for your app because this is misleading. Thank you.

Hi - in short, References is all about reading and *understanding* BibTeX files (and also understanding the LateX / BibDesk / JabRef commands inside them). This is something that the other apps you mention cannot do.

In detail: this is quite a different app from Mendeley or Files. The main advantage of References is that it can read and understand BibTeX and LaTeX: you can open any BibTeX database and view it in a natural way, and moreover References will translate the LaTeX code inside them to something human-readable on the screen. In contrast, it appears Mendeley cannot read or understand BibTeX files (it just writes it as one of many export formats). And of course Files just treats BibTeX as plain text, and does not understand any of the BibTeX or LaTeX commands inside it.

So: if what you want is an app to help you organise a collection of PDFs, then this is not the app for you. On the other hand, if you want an app that can read and understand BibTeX, then this is exactly what References was designed for.

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