Essential Tools for Writing a Paper

Your Workspace

Any project needs to start with a clean workspace

You need to have dedicated folders for:

• data
• literature
• paper
• presentation

Having a clean workspace will give you clarity.

As we progress throughout the course, we will keep adding files and data to the folder

Your Workspace

Reference Software

JabRef

This is reference manager software.

It is freely available

It saves the literature in a table-like format.

It later allows to format citations in the desired format (e.g. APA)

Only commands like “cite” are necessary.

Reference Software: JabRef

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Reference Software: JabRef

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Reference Software: JabRef

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Reference Software: JabRef

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Reference Software: JabRef

Interface

Reference Software: JabRef

Interface

Reference Software: JabRef

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Reference Software: JabRef

Article

Reference Software: JabRef

Article

Reference Software: JabRef

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Note the citation key

I typically choose “NameYear” as convention. It’s a good way to remember whom you cite.

Reference Software: JabRef

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Reference Software: JabRef

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Reference Software: JabRef

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Note that if you have more than one author you need to write them under the author section in JabRef:

“Acemoglu, Daron, and Robinson, James, and Johnson, Simon”

Reference Software: JabRef

Book

Reference Software: JabRef

Book

Reference Software: JabRef

Book