Dear Nathan, Thank you a lot, I really appreciate your advice.
With best wishes, Carlos ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 4:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bibdesk-users] BibDesk and Microsoft Word in 2020 This is a response to Carlos, who yesterday asked for help using BibDesk to insert citations and a bibliography in Microsoft Word. First, I would ask Carlos: Have you considered using Zotero as a reference manager? Zotero has a Word plugin. You can import a BibDesk file into Zotero. Second, I don't use Word directly (but sometimes I convert my plain-text documents to Word format using Pandoc), so using BibDesk to insert citations and a bibliography in Word is not a problem I have needed to solve, but I can see that there would be a variety of methods to solve it. 1. The easiest method that I can imagine is to use Pandoc for the bibliography: you would write citations manually in Word; then when finished writing, you would generate the bibliography by feeding to Pandoc: a list of citekeys + your BibDesk file + a CSL (Citation Style Language) file; then you would copy the generated bibliography into your written document. This would likely be easier (once you have learned to use Pandoc) than the following alternative, because there are many ready-made CSL files available on the Web for any bibliographic style. (Zotero also uses CSL files.) 2. Another method is to use BibDesk's templates: you would set up a citations template for the citation style and a bibliography template for the bibliography style; then set the default and alternate copying and dragging formats in BibDesk's citation preference pane to those templates; when citing you would select a publication in BibDesk, copy with the citation template, and paste into Word; when finished writing you would select all the cited publications in BibDesk, copy with the bibliography template, and paste into Word. This way may be harder than the previously mentioned method because you may have to write your own templates. 3. A third method would be not to write in Word at all: you would write in plain text using Pandoc's Markdown syntax (which is very simple); cite publications by writing @ in front of each citekey; when finished you would generate the Word document by feeding to Pandoc: your plain-text file + your BibDesk file + a CSL (Citation Style Language) file. This is actually what I do (although Word is not often my destination format). 4. David Sanson posted to GitHub some BibDesk export templates for Pandoc that allow a fourth method that is like a hybrid of the first and second methods mentioned above: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_dsanson_bibdesk-2Dpandoc-2Dexport-2Dtemplates&d=DwICAg&c=21GvzBjUVuezJWxqZ0YzE5zwoFbI4Gsp4f3hKxgRYPQ&r=1oRjm-HaPpCBBFqP22ZIK7Hni11VKa2g9fRLrylKDtA&m=2xSAjji6WTwBlSUXnAIbxgcNVLCHN2ckaeNbCVxge64&s=TY14XoMtS7fnoweB-NFTnykJvLJ2F1nHt-h3Vio5leM&e= [https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/14331?s=400&v=4]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_dsanson_bibdesk-2Dpandoc-2Dexport-2Dtemplates&d=DwICAg&c=21GvzBjUVuezJWxqZ0YzE5zwoFbI4Gsp4f3hKxgRYPQ&r=1oRjm-HaPpCBBFqP22ZIK7Hni11VKa2g9fRLrylKDtA&m=2xSAjji6WTwBlSUXnAIbxgcNVLCHN2ckaeNbCVxge64&s=TY14XoMtS7fnoweB-NFTnykJvLJ2F1nHt-h3Vio5leM&e=> GitHub - dsanson/bibdesk-pandoc-export-templates: BibDesk export templates for use with pandoc<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_dsanson_bibdesk-2Dpandoc-2Dexport-2Dtemplates&d=DwICAg&c=21GvzBjUVuezJWxqZ0YzE5zwoFbI4Gsp4f3hKxgRYPQ&r=1oRjm-HaPpCBBFqP22ZIK7Hni11VKa2g9fRLrylKDtA&m=2xSAjji6WTwBlSUXnAIbxgcNVLCHN2ckaeNbCVxge64&s=TY14XoMtS7fnoweB-NFTnykJvLJ2F1nHt-h3Vio5leM&e=> urldefense.proofpoint.com BibDesk export templates for use with pandoc. Contribute to dsanson/bibdesk-pandoc-export-templates development by creating an account on GitHub. In summary, you can use Zotero, use BibDesk's templates, or use Pandoc in various ways. 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