Four Applescripts enhance BibDesk's compatibility with Pages, creating an integrated reference management suite.
If you're looking for an efficient and reliable reference manager, then you might want to consider CiteInPages. It is a suite of four Applescripts that can help you integrate BibDesk with Apple's word processor, Pages (v. 3, from iWork '08). With CiteInPages, you can drag or insert "working citations" that contain BibTeX cite keys in a defined format from BibDesk into your Pages documents as you edit them.
Using BibDesk templates, CiteInPages will replace these working citations with numbered or author-date in-text citations, and create a correctly-ordered bibliography based on the same BibDesk template. What's more, this powerful software will then paste the bibliography into the Pages document, making it ideal for academic or research papers.
CiteInPages is definitely a cut above other commercial reference managers since it works on native Pages files through Pages itself, instead of requiring file conversion to rtf format. Such file conversion could lead to the loss of vital information, as well as the layout features and images that you'd want to retain in your document.
The best part about CiteInPages is that it is provided freely for use and modification under a BSD license. So, go ahead and give CiteInPages a try if you want to make managing your references a lot easier!
Using BibDesk templates, CiteInPages will replace these working citations with numbered or author-date in-text citations, and create a correctly-ordered bibliography based on the same BibDesk template. What's more, this powerful software will then paste the bibliography into the Pages document, making it ideal for academic or research papers.
CiteInPages is definitely a cut above other commercial reference managers since it works on native Pages files through Pages itself, instead of requiring file conversion to rtf format. Such file conversion could lead to the loss of vital information, as well as the layout features and images that you'd want to retain in your document.
The best part about CiteInPages is that it is provided freely for use and modification under a BSD license. So, go ahead and give CiteInPages a try if you want to make managing your references a lot easier!
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