Jonlemon has made a useful comment on my post on bibliographical reference in Devonthink and points out that ‘if you’re handling a lot of references and want to produce a reference list for a manuscript, then the collection of all the seperate references becomes a tedious task. [...] Bottom line: I think your setup is a good way to integrate referenes into DevonThink aslong as you’re not dealing with a lot of references.” This is a very valid point! After giving some thinking to the question I think that I have come up with a solution. Here it goes:
Instead of creating only 1 note per reference as I suggested earlier, I would create 2 notes.
Note 1 The title of the first note would have as a title the shorted reference (Surname, Name. Year. i.e. Allen, David. 2001.) It would contain the full reference (ie Allen, David 2001. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. London: Penguin.).
Note 2 The title of the second would be the full reference and it will contain nothing.
I would then create somewhere a folder called Bibliography and create a replicant of the notes having the full bibliographical reference as a title (ie on the model of note 2).
When I would like to create a bibliography for this project I would simply select all the notes and will then export them as txt, rtf or doc.
The result would be a bibliography arranged by alphabetical order.
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Nice idea – as long as you need only one formatting style. The problem is for those of us who publish in different contexts where the formatting requirements are different.
This is very true!
It would be great if there was some integration of DEVONthink and bibliographic management apps like EndNote. I’m sure if I was more tech savy, I could figure out a way to write a script that would allow me to manage this better.
Where is this at 2 years later? I’m writing a dissertation and thinking of beginning to organize my data with DEVONthink, which I like a lot, except for the 400+ references with notes I have entered into EndNote X2. I’d like to use DEVONthink and am not too worried about differently formatted bibliographies, but I’m not sure I want to retype the entries into DEVONthink or not have access to them through it. Any thoughts/advice? Please post and email (seantgillon@gmail.com).