{"id":4818,"date":"2015-12-23T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2015-12-23T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:32:48","slug":"org-ref-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4818","title":{"rendered":"Org-Ref Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about John Kitchin’s org-ref package<\/a> a couple of times before [1<\/a>, 2<\/a>] but now it’s available on Melpa. If you write papers or reports that have references (either internal or external), you need this package. It makes handling citations easy and transparent. <\/p>\n

Kitchin has a new video out describing the updated org-ref<\/a>. I suggest that you first watch the original video<\/a> to get an idea of some of the things you can do. The new video starts with an empty file and builds a toy article with the purpose of demonstrating how you would use the org-ref package during the preparation of an article or paper. <\/p>\n

The amount of functionality can seem overwhelming but Kitchin also provides a very nice manual<\/a> that documents the package and the functions it contains. Kitchin built the package for his own use in preparing papers—he’s a researcher in Chemical Engineering—so it really does solve the citation\/reference problems that a researcher encounters when writing up results. If you’re a student or an engineer producing reports, the package will be just as useful for you. <\/p>\n

An important fact about Kitchin’s workflow is that he writes his papers in Org mode. That has lots of advantages as he has as he has demonstrated before<\/a>. Now we can count one of those advantages as the automating of a large part of the citation\/reference process. As I wrote before, handling citations isn’t really hard but it can be fiddly. The org-ref package makes it much less tiresome to deal with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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