For students and researchers reference management probably is the most tiring task in their daily work-routine. They have to re-type and format bibliographic information again and again, for each paper, assignment or thesis. This is particularly annoying if you need to change citation styles. As a student this might happen because your supervisor changes his mind on his favorite citation style and researchers constantly need to adjust citation styles because almost every journal and conference has its own requirements (see picture). Some reference management tools, such as Endnote, offer Add-Ons for Microsoft Word for inserting and formation references directly within a Word document. However, users of reference management software relying on the BibTeX standard had no such add-ons (there only is BibTeX4Word which is a good tool but very difficult to use). Until now.
Today, just after we released the brand new Docear 1.0 Beta 6, we released Docear4Word 1.0. Docear4Word is an add-on for Microsoft Word (2003 and later) that allows you to insert references and bibliographies from BibTeX files to MS-Word documents. The great thing is that you don’t need to care about formatting. You can choose from 1,700+ citation styles (APA, MLA, Turabian, Harvard, IEEE, ACM, …).
IEEE Citation style vs. Elsevier’s Harvard Style
All you have to do is selecting a reference from your BibTeX database, and Docear4Word is doing the work. Docear4Word works with any BibTeX database, not only the one from Docear. That means you can use Docear4Word with almost any reference manager (JabRef, Bibdesk, Biblioscape, Bibus, Citavi, …). Docear4Word is totally free to use, open source (GPL 2 or later) and based on the Citation Style Language (CSL), the same one that Zotero, Mendeley and Papers are using. There is currently only one major feature that Docear4Word is not supporting and that is footnotes.
Features of Docear4Word
- More than 1,700 citation styles available (APA, MLA, Turabian, Harvard, IEEE, ACM, …)
- Runs with Microsoft Word 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013 (32Bit and 64Bit)
- Runs with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, … (32Bit and 64Bit)
- Comfortable search and filter function for entry selection
- Option to specify page numbers
- Full reference data is stored in the Word document (document remains usable without BibTeX file)
- Live update of bibliography when new reference is inserted (no refresh needed)
- Go through references (next/previous)
- Compatible with all BibTeX files
- Automatic selection of Docear’s currently active BibTeX file
- Based on the Citation Style Language (CSL), the same one that Zotero, Mendeley and Papers are using
- Send us your feature request
Install Docear4Word
- Download Docear4Word
- Run docar4word_setup.exe
- Follow the instructions (when you are using Windows XP you might be ask to install the .NET framework. Please do so)
- Questions? Problems? Contact us!
More Information and Docear4Word Homepage
For more information on Docear4Word (e.g. how to use it), visit the official homepage http://www.docear.org/software/add-ons/docear4word/overview/ (we would also prefer if you link the official homepage and not this blog post if you are writing about Docear4Word e.g. in your own Blog).
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Hi Dear Guys, Thanks for this great tool, it’s so wonderful!
I have a problem with Docear4Word 1.0,but there is not this problem in Docear4Word beta1. When I insert serveral citations using ACM SIG Proceedings CSL Style from a bib file which has 6 items ,for example, 1st step I insert item1 item3 and item5,in Word2010 it appears [1-3],2nd step I insert item2 item4 and item6,in Word2010 it appears [4-6],3rd step I insert item1 item2 and item3,in Word2010 it appears [1][4][2],it should appeared [1][2][4].In Docear4Word beta1 it appears [1][2][4],so I think it’s a bug about sorting. I have a try to find what generates this problem by replacing Docear4Word 1.0 installing files by Docear4Word beta1, discover the problem is generated by the file “Docear4Word.dll”.
Hope you could give me a solution, thank you in advance:)
Hello, sorry but I cannot follow this example. Can you please provide a more simple example and that in more detail? Have you tried any other citation styles? e.g. “ACM SIG Proceedings With Long Author List” or IEEE?
sorry , I using IEEE-Margin CSL Style and Chinese Std GB/T 7714-2005 (numeric) CSL Style.
I have send a mail with photos to show details
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Hello,
I want to citate in 2 different way:
e.g:
It is known that see sun is yellow (God et al. 2000).
but also:
God et al. (2000) says, that the sun is yellow.
How can i do this with docear4word
Many thanks
Steve
This is not yet possible but it’s on our todo-list with a high priority https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/docear/ticket/682
btw. you will get faster response if you post in our support forums http://www.docear.org/support/forums/
Hi Joeran!
Are you planning a similar plugin for LibreOffice/OpenOffice? Word is nice and all, but it’s not nicer than free and open-source.
Regards!
I am a Docear4Word user who had problems getting it to work on Windows XP. But I said, Do not make sa fuss – for I need to move to a new computer anyway.
I am now using a new computer, Windows 7, Word 2010. I have used Docear4Word for the first time, to write an academic lecture, the keynote address for a conference. Docear4Word worked perfectly.
I think I like the fact that the 4 elements, the word processor, the bibliography standard (bibtex), the manager (in my case JabRef), and bibliography and citation management (Docear4Word) are still clearly separate. But you seem to have them working well together.
My thanks.
Patrick O’Sullivan
I have been using Docear with Docear4Word in Windows 7 x64 and Office 2013 x64 with great sucess.
But now, I moved to Windows 8 x64 and Docear4Word won’t install and keeps asking for .Net 2.0
Any ideas?
Thank you
Hello,
apparently, you need to install .NET. You find information about Windows 8 and .NET here http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/05/14/windows-8-and-net-framework-3-5.aspx
Please let me know if this helps.
Best,
Joeran
Thanks Jorean, I got it working. My mistake was to assume that having .NET 4.5 by default, Windows 8 would not request any additional versions. I was wrong…
Cheers
Rui