Smart Reference Search

Find papers, add them to your bibliography and cite them without leaving the editor.

The Reference Manager finds papers, fetches their BibTeX and keeps your bibliography in one place. Open it from the left sidebar with the book icon. It has two tabs: Library for your bibliography and Discover for searching.

Search for papers

  1. Open the Discover tab.
  2. Type a query such as a title, an author or a topic. You can also select text in the editor and click the search button to find related papers.
  3. Sort by Relevance, Most Cited or Influential, and set a Year to show only papers published after it.
  4. Use the buttons on a result to read the abstract, read an AI summary, open the paper, or copy its citation key.
  5. Click Add to Bibliography. TeXposit fetches the BibTeX from the paper's DOI and opens it for review. Click Save Reference to add it.

Import from a DOI

  1. In the Reference Manager, click the + button (Add Reference).
  2. Under Import from DOI, paste the DOI, for example 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2, and click Get BibTeX.
  3. Check the entry, then click Save Reference.

Enter BibTeX by hand

For reports and unpublished work without a DOI, open Add Reference and paste or type an entry in the BibTeX Entry field. New entries are added to the top of your bibliography file.

@article{vanrossum1995python,
  title={Python: a language for the next decade},
  author={Van Rossum, Guido and Drake Jr, Fred L},
  year={1995}
}

Always check imported entries. Titles and author names sometimes need cleaning up.

Cite in your document

  • Autocomplete: type \cite{ in a .tex file and a list of your references appears. Type part of a key, title or author to filter it. In Markdown files, use [@key].
  • Insert Citation: right-click in the editor and choose Insert Citation. Search, tick one or more references, and click Insert Citation. Several selections go into a single \cite{a,b,c}.
  • From the Library: tick references in the Library tab and click Insert Citation at the bottom of the panel.

Manage the library

  • Filter: type in the Filter results box. A toggle limits the list to imported entries.
  • Folders: group references with New Folder from the More actions menu, and move entries with Move to Folder.
  • Other projects: turn on Include other projects to find references from your other projects. Selecting one adds it to this project.
  • Cited counts: each entry shows how many times it is cited, or not cited.
  • Remove: use Remove from Bibliography in an entry's menu.

Check your references

Check Reference Integrity in the More actions menu compares every entry with CrossRef and flags any that look fabricated or cannot be verified.

Separately, TeXposit's citation check reports a cite key that is missing from your .bib file, suggests the closest matching key, and lists unused entries.

Zotero

The Reference Manager also has a Zotero sync button. Link your Zotero account with an API key, choose a collection or your entire library, and click Sync now to mirror it into the project's bibliography.

See alsoAI Assistant·Bibliography