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One thing could be added: What do you do when you already have written a text with citations but without using the Bookends/ Mellel combo that way?įor this case is the 'convert text into citations' function in the menu (note that I use the German version of Mellel and therefore I have to re-translate the menu to English, so keep in mind it's more 'something like this' than the exact menu name).īut before you can do this, to tell Mellel which parts of the text should be converted, you have to set the 'temporary citation delimiters' in Bookends' preferences (dept. The usual workflow should be like described above. You can search the Bookends forum for details on this sort of thing, and/or post questions there for clarification.

And of course you only have to do it once. I do it for about one in thirty references these days. But this should be a fairly rare occurence. you will have to type in all the details yourself: author, date, title and whatever else you will need to produce a citation and bibliography entry. There may be other options I haven't mentioned - online biliographic databases have improved markedly in recent years.įor really obscure stuff - drafts of unpublished papers, books that no library with an online catalogue holds, papers in very obscure journals etc. The ones from Google Scholar generally need a lot of cleaning up once in Bookends though. There's a way to get similar citation files from Google Scholar - it's a preference option. ris and you drag the downloaded file onto Bookends, which will turn it into a reference).

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If you work in medical or biological science, you are in luck - you can import references from PubMed, again using the internet search.įor other areas of research you can download references for individual papers from the journals' websites (they come as text files with weird suffixes like. You can get ready-made references for pretty much any book straight into Bookends from the Library of Congress or various other libraries, using Bookend's Internet Search (Utilities>Internet Search).Īcademic papers are a bit trickier.

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If you are asking how to get references into Bookends, then that's really a Bookends issue, and you might get more (and better) answers at the Bookends forum. You can see that if you double-click one: you will see the original unformatted text and the formatted text in a dialogue box. The citations remain special editable objects behind the scenes.

The formatting of the in-text citations and of the bibliography is determined by the format chosen in Bookends. The result is that Mellel changes the appearance of all the citations in your text from unformatted to formatted and produces a bibliography, which is placed at the end of your Mellel document. This calls Bookends which looks for the citations and gives information back to Mellel.

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The citations display in Mellel unformatted - that is, just as code for Bookends to use in the next step.Ĥ) When you want to see the citations formatted, click on the scan button in the Mellel Biliography palette.

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author plus date, plus perhaps a word from the title. You can also simply type in citations in Mellel: Edit>Bibliography>Enter Citation Manually - and then type in some information that allows Bookends to find the reference you want and no other, e.g. You can do this by dragging and dropping from Bookends, or by pressing Command-Y in Bookends with the reference you want to cite highlighted, or by pressing the Copy Citation button in Bookends. What do you mean by 'manually'? The workflow is as follows:Ģ) Link Bookends to Mellel in Bookends preferences.ģ) When writing thesis/paper/whatever in Mellel, put citations in the correct places. I understand that I am wrong, that the way to go is first to enter all references I have in my paper manually