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Citation is a powerful and easy to use bibliographic database system and notes organizer
for research writing.
With Citation, you will be able to:
- Organize bibliographic information and notes in database records as you research your topic.
- Enter and proofread bibliographic information for sources you use in reseach papers and teaching materials
only once, using a single set of guidelines.
- Browse through your research notes by subject as you are preparing the basic structure
and points of your paper.
- Cite works as you are writing with a short author-date key that points to the record in your datafile.
- Easily include excerpts from your note records in your paper.
- Write your bibliographies and references with a click (Citation supports 1000+ predefined
citation styles, and provides you with the most powerful and easy to use custom report writer
available.
It's not only easy. It is quite simply a good idea to use Citation when you are researching a
topic and writing. Your notes and information on source works will be more easily organized and
more accessible.
Entering your references and notes as records in a Citation database will give you sorting,
searching, and keyword tagging capabilities that simply aren't possible with handwritten
notecards, word processing files, or even traditional database programs. Each record can have
as many keywords as you like, library call information, and an abstract up to 10 pages in length.
You can use Citation just like your speller and thesaurus -- from your word processor's menu,
as one of your writing tools.
With Citation, you will be able to focus on your writing, and let Citation take care of
organizing notes and writing bibliographic references.
Creating databases with Citation is easy. Just choose File, New from the menu, enter a
name for the new datafile, and you're ready to start gathering your references and
notes as bibliographic records.
- You can create as many databases as you like, and enter as many records as you need.
- You can also create shortcuts to your databases for Windows 95/98/2000, so you can open specific
databases with just a click, or even from your start menu.
There are many ways to add records to your Citation database. You can use BookWhere,
for instance, to search library systems and download the records
into your database. You can also search topics on internet
library and online database services (there are quite a few services
now that provide searches for periodicals and full text versions of texts), and
copy bibliographic information and notes into your records.
There are also a number of instances in which you will want to add records by hand,
as you are reading through works and notice citations for interesting sources, and so on.
Citation provides you with data entry forms tailored to help you enter complete
bibliographic information on almost any type of resource work.
To add a record to your database, choose Edit, Add Record, and
then select the data entry form from the dialog:
More information about the forms available in Citation.
Citation's data entry forms are specially designed to store pertinent information for particular
types of resource works and notes. The basic form for an Article in a journal,
for instance, prompts you to
enter all the information necessary for a proper reference to an article in a journal, plus
keywords (that will help you locate works on particular issues later, when you are writing),
and an abstract (which you can choose to include or not include in your bibliographic
citations):
For the more obscure types of resource works, Citation provides you with excellent
assistance for entering data: a comprehensive StyleGuide,
with illustrations for nearly
every type of source work listed in the major academic style guides, is included in
the Citation Help system and is available online.
Alphabetized lists of Authors, Journals (Reporters and Services), Keywords and Publishers
you have entered in your records help you enter additional data consistently and easily.
You can access these lists by clicking on the list button in the field:
The search button on the list boxes also makes it easy to browse through your
research notes and bibliographic records by topic, author, journal, or publisher
(court of jurisdiction).
Keywords, authors, and all other pieces of information in your records can be
searched and sorted just about any way you like.
Each record in your database has an Cite Key, or a "unique identifier" for the work
that you will use to cite the work (or place the note) in your papers.
As you are researching your topic online, searching library systems with BookWhere,
or reading through works that cite sources you think might be useful to your own project,
you can enter records in Citation and tag them with a keyword "readlist" to be included
in a list of background reading materials:
To generate a lists of works to consult, choose Generate Bibliography, and set
the style to Reading List:
You can use the reading list to locate works you need to consult for your research
(or as the bibliography to submit with a prospectus).
Note that information entered into the "Reference" field - a library call number,
for instance, or a URL to a website - will print in the document. URLs, as well,
will be active links in your Word or WordPerfect documents.
Keeping a reading list is a great way to make the time you spend tracking down
source works more efficient.
To cite a source in your document, you can use the Short List view of your database
to locate the record:
Click the Cite button to insert a "key" in your document to cite the work.
Specific page references for your footnotes
and intext citations can be added to the key as well:
Once you've placed the keys in your document citing records in your database,
writing intext citations, bibliographies and references with Citation is a cinch.
Here's how it works.
Click Generate, Citations
for document, and choose the style for your citations from the menu. Citation
writes the references in the style you've chosen:
You can reformat the citations in an instant in any of the 1000+ publishing styles
predefined in Citation, by
simply rerunning Citation and selecting a different style on the dialog.
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Keeping thorough and organized notes is an important part of the research
process. Citation provides you with special forms for notes that can make
collecting and organizing your notes easy and efficient.
This is easy to see, given a concrete example. Let's say, for instance,
that you were asked to prepare a paper on tribal law.
The first thing you would probably want to do is to use the internet to research
potential sources. You could use a search and retrieval program,
such as BookWhere, to search library systems and
download the results, or
search the library and other online services directly,
adding records for potential sources (and abstracts, when these are available) as you
locate them.
As you locate potential sources and add records for them to your Citation
database, you will want to make certain you tag them with the keyword "readlist" so
that you can use Citation to write a "reading list" of potential sources
to take with you to the library.
As you are reading through source works for your research, you will want to
enter a bibliographic record for each source, and then add Note records
with excerpts from the source work that you'll want to use in your papers.
In many cases, you can collect your notes directly from the internet. Just highlight the
text in your browser, click Copy, and then paste the text into your Citation note record.
See
the QuickStart Handbook for
more details on
adding note records
to your Citation datafile. The QuickStart handbook, as well as the online
Citation Workshop
also offer explanations of how to
select a subset of notes and sources on a specific topic,
how to print a document with your notes,
and incorporating notes into your papers.
There are a number of ways to review notes and bibliographic records that
pertain to similar topics. You can search for records that contain a
keyword, an author name, a journal, or a publisher/court, by using the
search button on the list box:
Citation provides you with a convenient way to let you write your records
as notecards:
You can have Citation place excerpts in your note records in your document, as
you are writing your citations. Just locate the note in the Short List (click
View, Short List), and click Cite:
You can use the Select feature in Citation to create subsets of your datafiles.
Just click Tools, Select, and enter your search criteria. Citation will create a
complete datafile with a subset of records matching your search criteria.
Citation requires Windows 95 or higher, 8 mb RAM and 12 mb of free disk space.
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