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How do I change the format of my citations?
You can change how you format of your citations (citation style) in two different ways. Changing citation style upon export. Changing citation style from citation modal. Changing citation style upon export You can format your citations upon export to over 8,000 different citation styles. The format will be propagated to your export according to the journal or citation style that you select. The citation style will not update in the web-view, only the export. Step 1 : Select export o
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How do I delete a citation or a reference?
In order to remove a citation from one of your documents, simply position your cursor after the citation and press backspace/delete. The reference linked to the citation will also be removed from the bibliography at the end of the document. (See Gif below)
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How to use the citation tool
To add a citation in Authorea, select the Citebutton on the toolbar of any active document. The Cite button calls a window which provides several options for citations. The first option is to search Crossref for citation information. The search functionality supports search by author name, year, publication, or keyword. Select Add next to the citation to
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How to import an entire Mendeley, Endnote, or Zotero library
You can import an entire bibliographic database from Mendeley, Endnote, or Zotero. First, you need to export your entire bibliography in BibTeX format. Go to Mendeley, Endnote, or Zotero and download/export your bibliography in BibTeX format. This will give you a .bib file. Second, go to an existing Authorea article and navigate to the Data folder, and browse to the bibliography folder (if it does not exist, create the folder). Finally, upload the .bib file with your library (using th
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How to reorder / sort references alphabetically or by date/year?
In the web view, references are automatically sorted based on where they appear in the document. However, you can customize how your references are sorted in the export document by following these steps. In the toolbar, select Export -> Export Options Pick a citation style which sorts references alphabetically or by date. You have many options! You can consult the full list to pick the citation/reference style that best suits your needs. Here
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How do I add a citation manually from Google Scholar?
Search your reference in Google Scholar. In the search results, click the "Cite" button right below the reference you want to cite. In the popup window that opens, select BibTeX at the bottom of the window. Copy the BibTeX entry. 3. Finally, go back to Authorea, click the Cite button in the toolbar and paste the BibTeX from Google Scholar into the the bott
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Is it possible to export a document with numeric citations and numbered references?
Yes! Here's how: Select Export Options under the Export dropdown menu. In the Export Options dashboard, change the Citation Style to a style that has numeric citations and references. There are many! Some examples below indicate some options you have whether you are exporting your document to PDF or Word.
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Citation management for LaTeX users
How to add a citation From inside a LaTeX block in the Authorea beta editor, click on the cite button. A citation tool opens up. Search for the paper by author name, title, keyword, and/or year of publication in one of our databases. When you find it, cite it and this will create a citation in your text suc
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Importing Mendeley References
Mendeley is a reference manager and academic social network from Elsevier. Mendeley makes it easy to manage references during the writing process. Authorea makes it easy to integrate Mendeley into your writing workflow. Integrating Mendeley into Authorea requires a one-time setup to change the default export option in Mendeley desktop to BibTeX. To set BibTeX to default in Mendeley Desktop: Step 1: Go to View > Citation Style > More Styles... , navigate to Export and select BibTeX as the default format  and add a URL and link text. If you need to cite a webpage as a scholarly reference, click the cite button in the toolbar. Copy and paste the the URL into the field and hit We will automatically pull the information from the URL, which you can modify as you wish or directly add.
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When adding a citation, how to correctly display author's last name when it is two words long?
If you are citing a paper whose authors have a two word last name (e.g. "Van Emmerick") you want to have both words displayed in your web and exported view. In most cases, this is already handled in the metadata by our bibliographic sources. But if you don't see a citation as "Van Emmerick, 2017" then do the following. Upon adding a citation, edit it (before adding it) so that the author line goes from: `author = {Tim Van Emmerik and Susan C. Steele-Dunne and Jasmeet Judge and Nick Van De Giese
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Some references not cited appear in the bibliography
Click on the gear icon ⚙️ in the right portion of the toolbar. Select Document Settings. Under Advanced Options, find the Show even uncited references in bibliography option. This option lets you include in your bibliography ALL the citations found in your article library (i.e. in the bibliography folder) whether they are cited or not. Uncheck it and submit to only show references cited in the article.
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How to cite an Authorea document
If you want to cite an Authorea document, first check if the document you want to cite has a DOI. If the document has a DOI, it will show a citation box. If this is the case, the document is accesible via the Authorea citation tool normally. Click cite in the toolbar and find it, via text search or DOI. If the document has no DOI, it can be cit
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How can I export my document in LaTeX and get citations formatted as \cite instead of \hyperref?
The vast majority of citation styles used by Authorea (over 9,000) are CSL styles (Citation Style Language) which are not BibTeX friendly. As such, if you pick one of these styles and export a LaTeX format of your document, you will get each citation encoded as hyperref{}. If you would like to get your citations exported in normal LaTeX/BibTeX mode, i.e. cite{}, you need to pick a "BiBTeX" citation style before you export. How to find these styles? They include "(bibtex)" in their name,
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How to use and import BibTeX
Under the hood, Authorea uses BibTeX, so if you want to use BibTeX to manage your references, you're in luck. If you want to add only one citation, you can simply copy and paste your BibTeX record inside the citation tool. Click on the cite button, then click on "Add citations from reference managers" and copy and paste your BibTeX record and follow the prompts to cite and close. Make sure it is well formatted. Here's one example:
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