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Lindsay — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:04:44 +0100

Howto integrate 'Footnotes' and bibliographic References with your texts

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:36:56 +0200

If you are used to complex text editing programs such as MS Word or Open Office, you will probably enjoy the Footnote and Biblio functions. In your text in a book page (but also other content types such as Research Journal or 'story'), you can us the fn tag <fn>and what you write in between the tags will appear as an automatically numbered footnote, but don't forget the end tag </fn>

Almost analogue to that works the bib tag. If you want to refer from within your text to a bibliographic reference, use
<bib> and </bib> whereby in between the tags you have to put the citekey.

You can only use bib if your reference exists in the biblio reference database of tnl. To do that, go to create content -- biblio and add a reference, which can be anything from book to article to journal, etc. Once you have entered your reference a citekey will automatically be generated (you could also enter one by hand). the automatically generated citekey is just a number. Put this number between bib tags and it will again create an automatically numbered endnote which will contain your reference.

Bibliographies and Download Area

Lindsay — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:36:08 +0100

Hello

Wondered what peoples views were on the bibliography system and how they would perhaps like it to develop?

I wondered if bibliographies should be linked directly to individual research journals (to keep the journal coherent) and also to a centralised point so that users would not have to go into research journals just to look for references. Should the bibliography section be searchable by topic or research interests? Someone mentioned a search function already, I presumed this was for the entire site, but perhaps a reference search could be possible which was separate from a general search? Also how would the bibliographies be displayed in individual journal pages?

Another section could perhaps be a download area for papers and notes? There are already a few downloadable papers on this site, would it make sense to have a specific area for this, linked to bibliography? This again would save manually searching through individual journals. I have not writen many papers but I do have some notes that I would like to share...these are basically editied books (!) which people might find handy.