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From: mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Samuel Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Bibliography databases?
Message-ID: <2557@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 20:00:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 20:00:22 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 23:31:17 EST
Reply-To: mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Samuel Wilson)
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I have not heard this request on the net for quite a while, and
it's one which just about all of us using computers in academics
can benefit.  Are there any good bibliography programs available?
What I have in mind is a database manager into which you can
enter bibliographic information (Author, Date, Title,
Publisher...) and then be able to (1) select a bunch of
references for a given paper, and (2) have the references printed
on a printer or to disk in a predetermined format (i.e. in the
styles of a variety of journals)?  Of course I would like the
things spit out alphabetically, by date, and all of that.

I have tried a program called BIBLIOGRAPHY which was too clumsy
and slow, and didn't do the things mentioned above.  I have tried
to write my way through it in DbaseII and Reflex, but ran into
trouble trying to program things like hanging indents in the
output.  INSTANT RECALL and 3x5 don't sort well enough.  I
started in writing my own in Pascal about two years ago but got
bogged down by I can't remember what.  Inertia.

I really think that there is a market for a well-written program
to do this kind of thing.  There must me one out there.  Anybody
know of one?

I'll post a summary to the net.

Samuel Wilson
Dept of Anthropology
University of Chicago    ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mobo