Wednesday, 17 February 2016

How to use JabRef+Google Scholar for creating bibtex database?

Google Scholar allows to download BibTex citations as you Search for the article.
The other short method is to download the citations directly from the article publisher site. Where you have to search for that particular paper, from that particular journal, using Title and/or DOI and/or author name. And, for each article with different publishers (AIP, IOP, IEEE, Elsevier, JAP…).
I am a hard-worker :) and hence I use this Journal publisher method only when I couldn’t find it in one-three Google search.
In Google Scholar search, you will be able to see something similar to Image. 1, whenever you search for an article.
Image. 1

If  not,  enable citations option, from  scholar preference setting (Image.2)

Image.2: Click on Scholar to set preferences



and under Bibliography manager=> check the radio button  => “show links to import citations into” => select bibtex => Save (refer Image.3)

Image.3: Scholar settings
Now, under each Scholar search you will see Image. 1, click cite, and Image. 4 will appear. 

Image. 4: Various citation options
So, this present us the option to Import into BibTex, click on it, copy and paste it to JabRef (under, add new article=> BibTex Source) as shown in Image. 5.
Image.5: JabRef window for adding new citation.

Note: Its a good idea to use the JabRef magicwand to create your own unique bibtexkey  (authorname_year).
If you have any suggestions or questions,  please let me know.

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