Tip: Bibtex in Google Scholar just saved a few years of my life-The Daley Devlin

Tip: Bibtex in Google Scholar just saved a few years of my life

January 14, 2008 · 3 comments

I use Google Scholar among other academic searches to find work related to my research. Other citation references supply a Bibtex entry for generating bibliographies. It wasn’t readily apparent to me, but Google Scholar does have this feature, you just have to turn it on.

Go into the Google Scholar Preferences and change the ‘Bibliography Manager’ to “show links to import citations into Bibtex”. Other options for bibliography management are: EndNote, RefMan, RefWorks, WenXianWang.

Oh and while you’re in there, set the results per page to something more reasonable like 50.

Happy hunting on your related work searches.

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1 You should know who // Jan 14, 2008 at 10:20 PM

Beware some of the entries are incomplete, i.e, won't have the complete conference title etc. ACM portal does a better job of complete bibtex references.
2 Adam // Jan 15, 2008 at 06:53 AM

Yea, I just used Google Scholar last week for a government research grant we were going after. Pretty awesome stuff.
3 Devlin // Jan 15, 2008 at 11:39 AM

@you_know_who_you_are: You are quite right to give warning. I've had pretty good luck with the accuracy. I figure that even in the case it missteps it's a pretty good starting point :)