These tips will be useful regardless of whether you work with both macOS and iOS, or do everything on an iPad. It assumes some knowledge of Zotero, but that is not difficult to acquire. What follows is not a primer on referencing, rather it is a means for managing citations on iPad, or even iPhone in a pinch. I have opted for the latter, by configuring different workflows using Apple’s Shortcuts app and the excellent Zotero API. That leaves us with a choice between poorly designed companion apps, or hacking together a solution of our own. It appears, without exception, the iOS is not yet viewed by developers of referencing software as a fully fledged computing platform. Referencing on iPad remains the final, stubborn piece of the puzzle to fully untether iOS from the Mac for academic writing. ![]() Update (): If you’re a Better BibTeX user, there is a new shortcut available to extract your citation keys Citation Management on iOSįor as long as the iPad has been an excellent device for focused writing, it has never been good for citations and referencing.
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