Wikindx is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system (Virtual Research Environment) designed either for single use (on a variety of operating systems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet. Wikindx falls within the category of
reference management software
Reference management software, citation management software, or bibliographic management software is software for scholars and authors to use for recording and utilising bibliographic citations (references) as well as managing project references ...
, but also provides functionality to write notes and entire papers. Developed under the
GNU
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GPL license
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, the project homepage can be found at
sourceforge.net and the required files/updates are available for download there.
Other features
* Support UTF-8 encoding and include translations (Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian).
* Allows multiple attachments for each bibliographic resource.
* Quarantining and embargoes of attachments and resources supported.
* Comprehensive search on resources and attachments.
* Store quotations, paraphrases and ideas with your references.
* Can export a bibliography in various bibliographic styles (
APA, Chicago,
IEEE
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for example).
* Allows users to edit or create bibliographic styles through a graphical interface.
* Can import and export other bibliographic formats including
BibTeX
BibTeX is reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The name is a portmanteau ...
and
EndNote
A note is a string of text placed at the bottom of a page (paper), page in a book or document or at the end of a chapter, volume, or the whole text. The note can provide an author's comments on the main text or citations of a reference work in ...
format.
* Export bibliographies to
RTF for use in
Word
A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or practical meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no conse ...
/
OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed), Apache OpenOffice, Collabora Online (enterprise ready LibreOffice) a ...
etc.
* Modular plugin architecture so easily customizable (
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. ...
) -- plugins include WYSIWYG word processor, import/export bibliographic formats, PubMed import.
* Google Docs integration
[WIKINDX Google Docs Add-o]
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See also
* Comparison of reference management software
The following tables compare notable reference management software. The comparison includes older applications that may no longer be supported, as well as actively-maintained software.
General
In the "notes" section, there is a difference betw ...
for some comparisons with similar packages.
References
Bibliography
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