Question for scientists or mathematicians

Cromulent · 20 Feb 2022 at 07:13

I'm trying to teach myself some science and am blogging about what I read. I need to cite my sources in my articles, but I'm stuck. I've been using Mendeley as a reference manager, but it doesn't seem to have an HTML option that I can put on my WordPress blog.

I've been thinking about buying EndNote 20, but then I found that I could take the BibTeX output from Mendeley and run it through BibTeX2HTML and get something I can paste into my WordPress articles.

What would you do in my situation? I should point out I use Linux on my machine, so if I did go for EndNote 20, I'd need to run it on a Windows 10 virtual machine which is not ideal.

NickK · 20 Feb 2022 at 09:31

The researchers I've worked with have typically just maintained them manually.

Cromulent · 20 Feb 2022 at 12:30

NickK said:
The researchers I've worked with have typically just maintained them manually.

Thank you for your reply.

Where do they store PDFs of the papers then? I have a whole bunch of PDFs with sections highlighted and notes written against them which I store in Mendely and then export a bibliography at the end with the correct DOI number and PMID etc. Plus because of the browser extension, I can pull all of this information off academic journal websites without having to worry about filling in a bunch of data manually.

NickK · 20 Feb 2022 at 13:06

Cromulent said:
Thank you for your reply.

Where do they store PDFs of the papers then? I have a whole bunch of PDFs with sections highlighted and notes written against them which I store in Mendely and then export a bibliography at the end with the correct DOI number and PMID etc. Plus because of the browser extension, I can pull all of this information off academic journal websites without having to worry about filling in a bunch of data manually.

Filed on Google Drive for example. Typically they file based on the area they're dealing. They will just issue and link to sites such as https://arxiv.org although they may keep a cached PDF. References for papers need to accessible during peer review so a reference to a publicly accessible location (or ResearchGate/SciHub etc) is needed by those reviewing.