{"id":9895,"date":"2021-08-08T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9895"},"modified":"2021-08-08T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T17:09:11","slug":"org-cite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9895","title":{"rendered":"Org Cite"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I\u2019ve said before, one of the worst parts of preparing a paper for publication is dealing with the bibliography. LaTeX has reasonably efficient ways of inserting and referencing citations but there\u2019s been no effective way of using them from within Org. John Kitchin pretty much solved this problem\u2014at least for his use cases\u2014with org-ref<\/a> but some in the Org-mode community thought a more general mechanism was needed.<\/p>\n

Enter Org-cite. It\u2019s a general method for dealing with citations within Org and although it hasn\u2019t been officially released yet, it\u2019s been merged and is available for those who want to try it out.<\/p>\n

Timothy over at This Month in Org<\/a> has a very nice summary of the new system in his Introducing Citations<\/a> article. Org-cite is meant to be a framework for developing citation systems specific to a user\u2019s workflow. John Kitchin has already started porting the functionality of his org-ref system to org-cite with org-ref-cite<\/a>. Kitchin has a video out the describes his new package that Irreal will consider shortly but it\u2019s still a work in progress. Kitchin says it\u2019s not yet ready for MELPA but will probably appear there shortly.<\/p>\n

Org-ref is already a great package for dealing with citations and cross references but org-cite standardizes citation processing in Org and I expect that all the great functionality of org-ref will eventually find its way into org-ref-cite. These packages make it less and less necessary to write your papers in anything but Org. Even when LaTeX tweaks are needed, they\u2019re easy to add directly into the Org file. Preparing, if not actually writing, papers is getting easier and easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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