Chapter 8. Reference management

Table of Contents
8.1. Add references
8.1.1. RIS datasets
8.1.2. risx datasets
8.2. Find and view references
8.3. Delete references
8.4. Edit references
8.5. Print references
8.6. Use the personal reference list
8.7. Global edit references
8.8. Create periodical synonyms
8.9. Character encoding issues
8.9.1. Character encodings of databases
8.9.2. Character encodings of imported data
8.9.3. Character encodings of exported data
8.10. Use pdfroot
8.11. Interaction with external applications
8.11.1. Editor
8.11.2. Viewer

You can manage your references with the refdbc command line client. We will demonstrate the interactive use of refdbc, but feel free to use the non-interactive batch mode instead if you prefer. We'll also use a conservative, least error-prone approach whenever there are several ways to achieve the same goal. E.g. we'll use intermediate files instead of piping so we can verify what we got at every stage. Once you're sure about what you're doing, you can still speed up things.