Easier Bibliographies
I particuarly hate spending time formatting references in essays and inputting titles/publishers/authors etc. I’ve found that Zotero is really useful and for MTC peeps you can load it up with the SBL style.
Biggest plus for me (over endnote) is that it runs in firefox so as you browse the library catalogue or EBSCO you can click a button in the address bar to add books straight into your referenced items. Sweet! There is a plugin for word and OpenOffice too.
Check it out: http://www.zotero.org/
SBL Style is in this list: http://www.zotero.org/styles
Hot tip! That’ll be making an appearance for next essay. I used endnote for the essay we just did, and was pretty unimpressed. I spent just as much time on references as without it. Couldn’t see what the fuss was about!
Ahh, I see MTC has not yet heard of the wonder that is laTeX\bibTeX, “now used outside of mathematics and computer science”
ahh…laTeX the word that is not pronounced the way it is spelled.
And “now used outside of mathematics and computer science” is not exactly the best way to market to the non-nerd population i’d suggest
do you code or use a wysiwyg? (just to match your techie comment…)
It’s a great little bit of software. The new version has online bibliography sharing, which could be helpful for essay work.
I’ve made up an MTC style (by editing the SBL style) and I’ll put it up on the LSS soon.
Hey, great! i’ll link the style once you have put that up – am sure it’ll be really useful.
Hey Reubs,
Dan ‘dark horse’ Saunders told me about this program and your link to it.I just installed this thing and have spent the last day or so seeing what it can do.
Bloom’ heck! It’s incredible!
Thanks for the link.I still can’t really believe how good it is.
Nick
The MTC style (you’ll need to be an MTC student/staff member to login) – http://learning.moore.edu.au/file.php/87/moddata/forum/138/6907/mtc.csl
Thanks mate! sensational!