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How to Cite Preprints, Datasets, and Nontraditional Sources with BibLaTeX

Citing Preprints, Datasets, and Nontraditional Sources with BibLaTeX A practical guide to modern citation needs in LaTeX—made easier with CiteDrive. Introduction Academic research is evolving fast, and so are the types of sources we rely on. While journal articles and ...

How to Sort Your LaTeX Bibliography in Alphabetical Order (BibTeX & BibLaTeX)

Whether you're working on a paper, thesis, or collaborative research project, getting your bibliography right is essential. One common requirement—especially for academic journals—is to sort references alphabetically by author. In LaTeX, this can be handled easily with ...

Tools to Summarize Papers: A Game-Changer for Researchers

In the world of academic research, time is precious. With the evergrowing number of papers being published, researchers often find themselves overwhelmed by the volume of information they need to process. To save valuable time and improve efficiency, researchers have tu ...

Beyond Overleaf: How CiteDrive Supports Every LaTeX Editor for Effortless Citation Management

Introduction: When it comes to reference management, CiteDrive has made a name for itself as a powerful tool for Overleaf users, providing seamless integration with this popular LaTeX editor. However, what many don’t realize is that CiteDrive is not limited to Overleaf ...

A Reference Manager that Supports BibLaTeX: Meet CiteDrive

Managing references doesn't have to be a hassle—especially when you're writing in LaTeX and using BibLaTeX for citations. Whether you're working on your thesis, collaborating on a paper, or just collecting sources for future reading, there's one tool built to streamline ...

Collaborating on LaTeX Projects? Here’s Why You Need CiteDrive

Working on a LaTeX document as a team can be powerful—but managing references together? That’s where things often fall apart. If you’ve collaborated on a paper using Overleaf, you’ve probably run into at least one of these issues: Conflicting .bib files Someone forget ...

Collaborating on R Markdown Projects? Here’s Why You Need CiteDrive

If you’re an R Markdown user looking for an efficient way to manage citations and references, CiteDrive is the perfect solution. This webbased reference manager is designed to seamlessly integrate with RStudio, making it easier than ever to handle bibliographies and ins ...

New Browser Extension Update: Seamless Citation Management with CiteDrive

New Browser Extension Update: Seamless Citation Management with CiteDrive We're excited to announce the latest update to our browser extension, designed to make your citation management even more efficient and streamlined. With these new features, managing your BibTeX r ...

CiteDrive 4.0 is Here! The Next Generation of Reference Management

After months of anticipation, we’re thrilled to announce that CiteDrive 4.0 is now live! This milestone release brings transformative updates designed to make citation and reference management even more intuitive and collaborative for researchers, writers, and teams. He ...

Enhance your academic writing experience with the powerful integration of MonsterWriter and CiteDrive.

Enhance your academic writing experience with the powerful integration of MonsterWriter and CiteDrive. This seamless collaboration brings a new level of efficiency and accuracy to your writing and citation management. MonsterWriter is the ideal tool for students and aca ...

Making Open Access Publishing Affordable: ConductScience Paves the Way for Cost-effective Scholarship

Open access the free and unrestricted online publication of scholarly articles - promises a new era of access to research. But behind the scenes, financial hurdles lurk. Authors face high fees for publishing their work, while reputable publishers such as Elsevier are un ...

Mastering Bibliography Styles in LaTeX/Overleaf: A Quick Guide for BibTeX, natbib, and BibLaTeX

Do you use LaTeX or Overleaf and need help customizing bibliography styles for your documents? Whether in BibTeX, natbib, or BibLaTeX, bibliography style customization can be slightly confusing initially, especially as the style names could be clear guides. We will show ...

10 Reasons to Switch from BibTeX to BibLaTeX

Creating LaTeX documents is a challenge that goes hand in hand with choosing a suitable reference management system, much like choosing the right tool. BibTeX, a longestablished option, has proven to be a reliable companion. The resilient natbib is also a good choice. A ...

Magic .bib-file Version Two: Enhanced Functionalities for Synchronizing .bib Files with Overleaf and RStudio

We are excited to inform you that we have implemented some thrilling improvements to the dynamic .bib file used for synchronization with Overleaf and RStudio. These updates enable a more userfriendly formatting and offer additional features for seamless work in LaTeX an ...

Using the keywords Field in BibTeX for Effective Tagging and Filtering in CiteDrive

Adding Keywords to CiteDrive References in Bibtex To enrich your references in CiteDrive and enhance their searchability, you can add keywords or tags directly to your bibtex entries. This can be done using the keywords field. Here's how: bibtex @article{yourreferenceid ...

Integrating CiteDrive's 'Magic' .bib with Desktop Applications

CiteDrive is widely recognized for its magicbib-file, a cornerstone in modern, user-friendly, and collaborative web-based reference management with a prime emphasis on BibTeX and BibLaTeX. Whether capturing articles and webpages with our browser extension or delving int ...

Managing Citations and Bibliographies with BibLaTeX using Overleaf

In academic writing, citations and bibliographies play a crucial role in presenting a comprehensive and wellresearched paper. With the advent of digital tools, managing citations and bibliographies has become significantly easier than before. In this blog post, we will ...

CiteDrive 3.1 – Announcement and Roadmap

We are pleased to announce some significant CiteDrive updates! We've worked hard to bring you the most upto-date features to help you manage your research and academic projects more effectively. First and foremost, we are pleased to present the first iteration of the "M ...

Using natbib with BibTeX and Overleaf

The natbib package revolutionizes the standard \cite{*} command in LaTeX, when using BibTeX; providing a plethora of options for authoryear schemes and displaying both textual and parenthetical information when using BibTeX. With this enhanced feature, you can easily cu ...

CiteDrive Forum has Moved to GitHub Discussions

We at CiteDrive are thrilled to announce that we have recently moved our discussion forums to GitHub Discussions. This move was made with the aim of providing our users with a better and more streamlined platform for discussing and sharing their experiences with our ref ...

Parenthetical vs. narrative citations in CiteDrive

We receive many questions about using CiteDrive to create citations in parentheticals and narratives. Since the app is a BibTeXbased online reference management tool that works with both LaTeX and Pandoc-based systems (such as R Markdown and Quarto) and synchronizes you ...

Citation keys in BibTeX

The citation key is a unique identifier in BibTeX that is used to identify a specific source in your bibliography file. The citation key is used in the \cite{key} command to generate a citation in your LaTeX document, as well as in the bibliography file to refer to the ...

How to Cite a Website in BibTeX

BibTeX is a tool and a file format used for managing citations and bibliographies in LaTeX documents. Since citing websites requires a hack, there are a few things to remember when referencing a website in a BibTeX document. To simplify matters, BibLaTeX was developed. ...

Announcing CiteDrive 3.0: keep track of your bibliographies, references, and citations on Overleaf and RStudio

CiteDrive 3.0 is out now, and it's better than ever! We've made many improvements, including a better design, more focus on reference management with BibTeX, and better performance. If you're an Overleaf or RStudio user, be sure to check it out. Better Bib[La]TeX Overle ...

CodeMirror 6: A New Source Editor for Overleaf

Good news, Overleaf users! After several weeks of beta testing, the new source editor (CodeMirror 6) is now available to power Overleaf. This new editor is more modern and supports a wide range of features that the old one did not. Be sure to read Overleaf's latest upda ...

CiteDrive for Bibliography Management in RStudio: Easily Insert References into Quarto Documents

Do you need to insert citations into your Quarto documents? If so, then you’ll want to check out CiteDrive for RStudio. With CiteDrive, you can easily manage your bibliography and insert references into your documents. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to get started ...

Grammarly Works with Overleaf's Latest Source Editor Upgrade

If you're looking for a great way to improve your writing, Grammarly is the perfect tool for you! Grammarly is a grammarchecking tool that helps you find and correct mistakes in your writing. It's available as a plugin for several different word processors, including Mi ...

How to Use Overleaf to Dual-Monitor Your PDF and Code: the PDF detach!

The brand new function available on Overleaf will open up a world of possibilities for your document management: the PDF detach! !Test Do you have a dual monitor setup? If so, you're in luck! As of 15 June 2022, Overleaf has a detach feature that allows you to view your ...

Overleaf Source Editor Upgrade

Overleaf is currently rebuilding its source editor, and CiteDrive will adapt its extension to work with the new environment. This means that you'll be able to manage your BibTeX references in the new editor as well. !Test The new source editor is accessible to anyone wh ...

The CiteDrive Companion for Overleaf and RStudio

It has never been so easy to collect academic papers. Just click the CiteDrive button when you want to cite. This will automatically add any article you see in the browser to your Overleaf or RStudio project. !Featured Image Looking for new papers to read can be timecon ...

Data Visualization Packages for R you should check out in 2022

In the following, we have listed exciting libraries in R for data visualization that you should check out. !Test ggplot2 As part of the robust tidiyverse ecosystem, ggplot2 offers the most featurerich and versatile graph creation package based on the grammar of graphics ...

CiteDrive 3.0: Information on the upcoming version

For months we have been working on CiteDrive 3.0, a complete revision of the previous version. We are happy to announce that the new version will be released soon! Here is some information about the changes to give you the first insight. We are bringing reference manage ...

Overleaf is a finalist in the Digital Leaders Impact Awards 2022

Overleaf was named a finalist at the 6th Digital Leaders Impact Awards 2022 after making the top 3 in the Education category! !Test We are delighted to announce that our friends at Overleaf are finalists in the 6th Digital Leaders Impact Awards 2022. The Digital Leaders ...

CiteDrive January 2022 Release

Happy new year guys! We have been hard at work in the background building a better reference management experience based on all of the amazing feedback we received from users like you. On behalf of the entire CiteDrive crew, we hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday ...

CiteDrive November 2021 Release

Timed perfectly to coincide with fall leaves, cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes, we’re pleased to announce the November 2021 release of CiteDrive! Timed perfectly to coincide with fall leaves, cooler weather, and pumpkin spice lattes, we’re pleased to announce the ...

Literature management with Overleaf

Complete your research pipeline with the powerful twoapp. Link your two APPs and get all the updates in your BibTeX file without having to do anything at all manually in Overleaf — with a few simple mouse clicks. Concentrate on your work in Overleaf and leave the tediou ...