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I am new to BibDesk and Latex. I was wondering if there is a faster way than exporting articles from BibDesk as a .bib file via the file -> export button to integrate those into latex? Isn't there any latex package which directly exports your articles form BibDesk?
So ideally I add a new reference to my BibDesk then copy the \cite tag and finally just rerun make (and other commands recompile latex and it is there.
Winedt offers this functionality. You type \cite{} then this window opens:
where you can search the entries.
Upon selecting and clicking Insert you will get \cite{E.L.dasilva2000}.
Better BibTeX for Zotero allows for automated export to BibTeX/BibLaTeX (a.o.). It's set-and-forget; you export a collection to a file, tick "Keep updated", and Bob's your proverbial uncle. Any changes you make to that collection or its entries will cause a background update of the bib file.
You can have multiple of such exports set up -- BBT implements heavy caching, so most of the time you won't even notice that its busy (except that one user with a crazy 22k entries in a single collection -- that takes a little under a minute).
Full disclosure: I am the author of BBT.
Best Answer
As far as I know, BibDesk saves data in a
.bibfile, so you don't need to export anything, so long as the database is in a place readable by the TeX programs.If you save your huge
josh.bibfile created by BibDesk in the folder(create the structure if some of those folders don't exist,
~represents your Home), thenin a LaTeX document will find all citations keys in that file.
Of course a
\nocite{*}command would list in the bibliography everything you have in the big database and here's where the "export" function is needed: you can create a particular database from the main one for a specific document. But that's by no means necessary.