Re: [O] Managing articles in orgmode and collaboration

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Thomas S. Dye writes: 

> I don't manage my bibliography references in Org mode.  I am 
> used to managing a bibtex database and have never found the need 
> to move everything to Org. 

Same here.

> Bibtex mode has functions for automatic reference key 
> generation: 
>
> http://www.jonathanleroux.org/bibtex-mode.html#0630 
>
> You can configure this process.

You can also download the .bib from Google Scholar or whatever and 
then clean the entry, so that your database has the same format.

> Either a separate bibtex file for each article, or separate 
> bibtex files for each co-author.  

Or better do both...

#+BEGIN_SRC latex 
 \bibliography{/home/you/references/articles.bib}
 % \bibliography{/home/collaborator_1/references/articles.bib}
 % \bibliography{/home/collaborator_2/references/articles.bib}
 ...
 \bibliography{references}

#+END_SRC

When a collaborator_i is working on the file she/he comments the 
first line and uncomments the i-th line AND everybody runs 
reftex-create-bibtex-file (or copy paste the new references for 
the unfortunate non-emacs user) after adding new references and 
finishing editing. Everybody shares a current version of the .tex 
file and the references.bib file.

> In general, you'll want to have the bibtex file(s) for an 
> article only contain the references that you'll use in the 
> article, especially if you intend to distribute the bibtex files 
> as part of a reproducible research project. 

Note that when the article is ready the references.bib is the only 
thing you need to compile, since it has all the references, so you 
erase the all the other \bibliography's

> There are tools that use the information in your article .tex 
> files to create this kind of bibtex file from a larger bibtex 
> database. 

Yes, emacs via reftex-create-bibtex-file =)

Best,

--
Jorge.