What’s a good way to retrieve BibTeX entries? This question has been asked on tex.SX, Reddit and other forums. Google Scholar is doing a reasonable, but not always brilliant job in generating BibTeX entries (see my recent post on the topic and the discussion). The main drawbacks include the missing digital object identifier (DOI) or URL linking … [Read more…]
Google indexes most things on the web. “Most things” includes publications which are searchable through Google Scholar. Google Scholar generates BibTeX citations which can be imported into a .bib file or citation database. To download BibTeX citation go to Google Scholar and search for a publication. Through the cite button below a search result Google … [Read more…]
Everybody is talking about making research reproducible. With the integration of knitr in RStudio, reproducible research has been made available to people who are less familiar with the Terminal. All you need is some basics in R and LaTeX and you can generate reports directly from within RStudio. With a few tweaks, RStudio automatically generates … [Read more…]
The biblatex package offers great flexibility while creating bibliographies. One of the things the package handles beautifully and can be achieved with little effort is the subdivision of a bibliography into multiple parts for per chapter/section bibliographies as well as by type or other patterns. Per chapter/section bibliographies Biblatex implements the refsection environment to … [Read more…]
Sometimes it is hard to keep track of labels, particularly in large documents with many figures, tables or equations. Unless you remember all label names by heart, you will likely scroll up and down till you find the particular position in the text where the label is defined. The showlabels package provides a convenient way … [Read more…]