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Paper + BibTeX citation

Paper + BibTeX citation

Elixir
Super User

As Paper is improving towards a powerful collaboration tool, I would like to see this features in near future. For sceintific and academic writing, citation is an essential feature. It would be nice if Paper adopts to one of the most popular citation format BibTex. What paper need to implement is someting like this: in the text we need a citation field, say, "\cite{tag_journal_1}". And in the end of the text include the list of citaion with tag. 

 

\begin{Bibliography}[Bibliography Style]

@tag_journal_1{

Author: author one, author two,

Title: This is Title,

Journal: Journal Name,

Vol: xx,

Pages: xxx

Year: 2018} 

\end{Bibliography} 

 

Good thing is that bibliography can be downloaded from most journals as above BibTex format, it is widely popular. Even better if Paper implements an universal citation manager where we can directly import citations, and insert into any Paper document. 

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Hannah
Dropbox Staff

Hey everyone, this idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.

Status changed to: Closed
16 Comments
Emma
Community Manager
 
Status changed to: Gathering Support
pjdkoch
New member | Level 2

For folks wanting support for org mode files, there's always https://org-web.org/ until something gets baked in!

kaushalmodi
New member | Level 2

Apparently the Like button does not work on mobile.

 

A +1 from me too for:

> Can you please add *.org / *.bib / *.tex  to the list of associated plain text files.

enniomore
Explorer | Level 3

Don't know why I can't vote up the comments, so I'll add another comment.  I would love to see this feature come back.  Yes, come back: when I started using Dropbox on iOS several years ago, I was able to view text-mode .org files just fine. 

Seems to me like Dropbox should default to showing files as plain-text by default (as long as they are small enough).  There's no harm in allowing it, it would allow other proprietary formats to be supported for free, and even for your random file type, viewing the raw source can still be instructive in many cases.

What good is it having a plain text file on Dropbox that the app won't let you see?  Seems like a useless anti-feature to me.

So much so that I submitted a dropbox ticket to request this feature, ticket #9092622.  Unfortunately the process of explaining what I wanted, and providing all the mountains of useless and even redundant supporting data that was requested (screenshots? really?), proved so painful that I simply, and in futile dejected misery, gave up.

Walter
Dropbox Staff

Thank you for your idea, while we can’t take every idea forward we do regularly re-review and will update you if anything changes!

Status changed to: Not for right now
Hannah
Dropbox Staff

Hey everyone, this idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.

Status changed to: Closed
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