Friday, April 20, 2007

Google References

Okay, I'm going to say right here that this goes out to the academics in the room. The rest of you are probably wasting your time. (But then again, why else would you be here, right?)

I just discovered this cool feature in Google Scholar. It's easy to do, just follow these steps:
1) Cut a hole in a box.
1) Go to Google Scholar
2) Click on the "Scholar Preferences" link on the right:


Yeah, yeah, the arrows. I know.
3) Scroll to the bottom and click select "Show links to import citations into ..." and choose your poison. (Mine happens to be BibTeX.)

Okay, let's try this out. Let's search for something of interest.

Looks like we stumbled upon a gem here. Maybe we'll want to reference this at some point. So by clicking on "Import into BibTeX", we get the reference in BibTeX format:

@article{naveh1982kpd,
title={{Kinetics of peroxidase deactivation in blanching of corn-on-the-cob}},
author={Naveh, D. and Mizrahi, S. and Kopelman, I.J.},
journal={Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry},
volume={30},
number={5},
pages={967--970},
year={1982},
publisher={American Chemical Society}
}

Now you usually have to make small edits, but in general, the form is there! Cool, eh?

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