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1. fields with the shortcut Ctrl Shift Q This option is useful to add easily the reference of a quote typed in these fields If the bibtex key will be changed the software will update also the possible key containted in these fields A right click of the mouse on the items grid on the compilation area or on the attachment list will show a pop up menu with some menu items commonly used The pop up menu item Open link is enabled only when in the compilation area a field is actually selected and contains an internet address that is it begins with http this menu item allows to open the address in the default browser With the Copyright menu the last one identified by a question mark it is possible to show this user manual in pdf format and the copyright along with the version of the software in use 13 Attachments It is possible to attach many files to a single item dragging them on the form of the software also more files at a time or using the menu item Items Attachments New The attachments are stored in zip format within a directory with the same name and path of the Bibfilex file in use This means that if this file is copied or moved from one location to another it is necessary to copy in the same location also the directory with the same name if it is present namely if there are attachments The attachments directory is completely managed by the software it is created when the first attac
2. url The URL of an online publication If it is not URL escaped no chars with Biber it will be URI escaped according to RFC 3987 that is even Unicode chars will be correctly escaped urldate The access date of the address specified in the url field venue The location of a conference a symposium or some other event in proceedings and inproceedings entries Note that the location list holds the place of publication It therefore corresponds to the publisher and institution lists The location of the event is given in the venue field See also eventdate and eventtitle version The revision number of a piece of software a manual etc volume The volume of a multi volume book or a periodical See also part volumes The total number of volumes of a multi volume work Depending on the entry type this field refers to title or maintitle year The year of publication 30
3. 1 Value 2 and Value 3 If two or three conditions are specified they will be linked in AND or in OR condition according to what is specified in the Link box In the values the character cannot be used if the is present and vice versa The wildcard is To search in the Owned field type T as field value to find the checked items and F to find the uncheked ones The filter is case insensitive To search in the attachment field choose AttName as field and remember that the names of the attachments are stored within it as different lines just as they look in the Attachments list Attachments are not stored in the file field according to Biblatex rules because this field should not be compiled properly to make possibile the Bibfilex way of manage more attachments for a single item Anyway in the exported Biblatex files the attachments names are stored in the file field in the JabRef format As long as the conditions are specified the corresponding SQL code will be written in the field at the bottom of the form Changing the value of the box Statement in User defined makes possible to modify directly the SQL statement in the field thus creating more complex queries on more that three fields or making case sensitive filters Selecting Standard in the box Statement restores the original use of SQL field The following buttons are available Apply filter Apply the f
4. No ibidem or idem just after this command In this option group can be specified the command which begins the area chapter section footnote etc whose first citation will not be replaced by ibidem nor its author will be replaced by idem in any case 4 3 Citations pattern The grid in the Citations pattern tab contains the patterns used by the software to create the citations of the various items Three different kind of citations are available for each Biblatex entry type normal which is the first citation of an item in a LaTex document short which is the citations of an item following the first and biblio which is the citation of the item in the bibliography So it s possible to set different structures of citations according to the position of an item in the Latex document This functionalities is used by the features activated by the menu items Items Copy plain citations Items Copy formatted citations Tools Replace citations and Tools Replace and convert In the first two cases the normal citation will be used Basically a citation is created putting together all the elements contained in the cells of the row corresponding to the type of an item article book etc starting from the left and going rightward If a cell contains the name of one field possibly among other elements commas semicolon LaTex formatting commands etc then all the content o
5. Word maintaining font formatting italic small caps etc create automatically unique BibTex keys according to a pattern defined by the user in an item in the filtered items of in all the items of the file in use store a specific keyword in a buffer and insert or remove it easily within the selected item with a shortcut specify the fields columns shown in the grid view of the data insert easily special characters and keywords with a dedicated form go easily to a specified item with bookmarks copy in the current item the content of some fields of another item referenced by the crossref field check for double items in the file in use Bibfilex has been developed with Lazarus www lazarus freepascal org Bibfilex is free software and is released under the GPL license version 3 www gnu org licenses gpl 3 0 txt Chapter 1 Basic elements 1 1 The main form The main form of Bibfilex is divided in three areas e the read only grid on the left in which are shown the items contained in the file in use the visible columns may be changed in the options of the software see Tools Options menu item e the search area on the top where it s possible to filter items on a single field Smart filter box or by keyword Filter keywords box or to move within the items green arrows on the right e the compilation area where it is possible to specify the item type Entry types add sho
6. area begins with the LaTex command specified in the option group No ibidem or idem just after this command The software considers within the same area all the citations that follow the command specified in that option group and that come before the next recurrence of the same command even if they are in the body of the text For instance is this check box is disabled two citations of the same item could be M Rosin A guide to computer ED Publishing New York 2000 134 135 M Rosin A guide to computer ED Publishing New York 2000 150 160 If the check box is enabled the same citations become M Rosin A guide to computer ED Publishing New York 2000 134 135 Ibidem 150 160 Ibidem text In this field is specified the text that will replace the citation within the footnotes or in the body of the text to mean that it s related to the same item of the previous one Author as idem if it s the same as before When this check box is checked if the name and the family name of an author or of an editor in its place is the same of the one of the previous citation and if they are within the same area specified below chapter section footnote etc the second one will be replaced with an idem indication which can be specified by the user The area begins with the LaTex command specified in the option group No ibidem or idem just after this command The software considers within the same area al
7. by the software Anyway if the dialog related to the postnote is aborted with the button Cancel or the key ESC only the BibTex key will be copied in the clipboard without command for citation This option is useful to get a clean key and to paste it in the crossref field of another item Copy plain citation Copy in the clipboard the fields of the current item or of the selected items formatted as a citation according to the pattern specified in the Options The possible Latex commands contained in the pattern and useful to format the characters in italic bold etc will be preserved so the citation may be pasted in a Latex editor maintaining all its formatting Copy formatted citation Copy in the clipboard the fields of the current item or of the selected items formatted as a citation according to the pattern specified in the Options The Latex commands useful to format characters in italic bold and small caps textit emph textbf and textsc will be converted to the corresponding HTML tags so that the citation may be pasted directly in a word processor like LibreOffice Writer maintaining all its characteristics Anyway it cannot be pasted in a plain text editor since it will result in an empty text Update keywords list Update the list of keywords used in the current file and useful for auto completion on keywords the list is created when a file is opened but could be updated if new keywords are added
8. column line verse section and paragraph See also pagination booksubtitle The subtitle related to the booktitle If the subtitle field refers to a work which is part of a larger publication a possible subtitle of the main work is given in this field See also subtitle 24 booktitle If the title field indicates the title of a work which is part of a larger publication the title of the main work is given in this field See also title booktitleaddon An annex to the booktitle to be printed in a different font chapter A chapter or section or any other unit of a work commentator The author s of a commentary to the work Note that this field is intended for commented editions which have a commentator in addition to the author If the work is a stand alone commentary the commentator should be given in the author field If the commen tator is identical to the editor and or translator the standard styles will automatically concatenate these fields in the bibliography See also annotator date The publication date See also month and year doi The Digital Object Identifier of the work edition The edition of a printed publication This must be an integer not an ordinal Don t say edition First or edition 1st but edition 1 The bibliography style converts this to a language dependent ordinal It is also possible to give the edition as a literal string for example Third revised and expanded edition editor The editor s of t
9. each of them must be separated by and If the authors or the editors are more than two or three the words and others may be added at the end of the field Some examples e Brown Marc George Brown Marc George and Schmidt Mary Brown Marc George and Schmidt Mary and O Malley Marc Brown Marc George and Schmidt Mary and O Malley Marc and others Institute for computing Institute for computing and Institute for planning 6 2 Entry types article An article in a journal magazine newspaper or other periodical which forms a self contained unit with its own title The title of the periodical is given in the journaltitle field If the issue has its own title in addition to the main title of the periodical it goes in the issuetitle field Note that editor and related fields refer to the journal while translator and related fields refer to the article book A single volume book with one or more authors where the authors share credit for the work as a whole This entry type also covers the function of the inbook type of traditional BibTeX mvbook A multi volume book For backwards compatibility multi volume books are also supported by the entry type book However it is advisable to make use of the dedicated entry type mvbook 21 inbook A part of a book which forms a self contained unit with its own title Note that the profile of this entry type is different from standard BibTeX bookinbook This type is similar to i
10. made The format of the Biblatex file is the same of the one produced by the following feature The authors that have no comma inside it because they do not have a name and a family name like institutional authors etc will be exported between two curly brackets If they are more than one each of them will be exported within two curly brakets It s not possibile to mix institutional and personal authors in the same field Export to Biblatex Export the items in a Biblatex file specified by the user If a filter is applied only the filtered data will be exported Possible attachments will be exported within a folder with the same name and location of the Biblatex file and they will be referenced in the file fields These fields will we composed properly to be recognized and opened in JabRef To avoid to create a Biblatex file with an attachment directory that overlaps the one of an existing Bibfilex file it s not possible to give the Biblatex file the name of an existing Bibfilex file The file is imported properly also in Zotero except for the attachments To import the abstracts as Notes activate the option Export abstract as review in the Options of the software Import from Biblatex Import in the file in use a Biblatex file like a database of JabRef or a file exported by Bibfilex More files may be selected and imported at a time just Ctrl click on each one of them In the file to be imported the fie
11. to control it properly and possibly delete it To update the list of double items after deleting one of them just click again on the button Check Replace all BibTex keys Replaces all the BibTex keys in the file in use with news keys defined according to the BibTex key pattern If a filter is active only the filtered items will be modified This procedure is slow because the software must check that each new key is unique within the file in use Replace citations Open a Latex document and replace all its citation commands with the corresponding extended citations and bibliography according to a pattern defined in the Options The resulting modified document will be saved in the same directory of the original one and its name will be the same with the addition of fullcitations at the end of it The commands cite textcite parencite smartcite will be replaced with citations in which the family names of the authors of the bookauthors and of the editors will be printed after their name whereas the printbibliography command will be replaced with a sorted list of citation in which their family names come first The search and replacement of the various bibtex keys is case insensitive The possible prenote and postnote elements each of which must be typed within square brackets just after the command and before the BibTex key will be printed without any modification before and after the citation If within the postno
12. Bibfilex A free bibliographic manager User manual Copyright Massimo Nardello Modena Italy 2013 2015 Version 1 2 6 Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is available in http www gnu org licenses fdl html Introduction Bibfilex is a free bibliographic manager for GNU Linux Windows and OS X It s useful to create and to manage archives of bibliographical items books articles etc with possible attachments of any kind according to Biblatex structure and rules but it can be used also with a wordprocessor like Writer or Word Biblatex is a package of Latex which implements its bibliographic facilities in conjunction with Bibtex or Biber packages This manual in the last chapter offers few information about how to catalog items according to Biblatex rules anyway to learn more about this download the official manual from http mirrors ctan org macros latex contrib biblatex doc biblatex pdf On the Internet there are many other guides on the same matter Bibfilex is far less advanced than other bibliographic managers like JabRef or KBibTex and allows only few customizations Its strength is speed and lightness especially when used with many items since it s a compiled sof
13. The keywords list is available in the Keywords list form shown with the menu item Tools Keywords list see below Rename keyword Rename a keyword in all the items of the file in use The user must type the old keyword to be replaced and then the new one if the latter is empty the old password is simply removed from all the items The search for the old password is case insensitive Store keyword Give the user the possibility to type a keyword or more than one separated by a comma and a space and store it in a buffer The keyword could then be inserted in an item with the following functionality When this menu item is activated the possible existing keyword is shown and may be changed or deleted in order to clear the buffer Tha value of the buffer is remembered by the software Add or remove keyword Add to the current item the keyword s saved in the buffer with the previous functionality or removes it if it s already present If there s no keyword in the buffer this functionality does nothing It s useful to add or remove very easily a keyword or more keywords in a single item Filter from Latex file Filter the items whose BibTex key is contained in a Latex file within one of the following commands cite textcite parencite smartcite This functionality is useful to filter the items quoted in a Latex document in order to export them in a Biblatex file to be stored with the document or pasted wi
14. addition to the main title of the periodical it goes in the issuetitle field The editor is omissible suppperiodical Supplemental material in a periodical This type is similar to suppbook but related to the periodical entry type The role of this entry type may be more obvious if you bear in mind that the article type could also be called inperiodical This type may be useful when referring to items such as regular columns obituaries letters to the editor etc which only have a generic title Style guides may require such items to be formatted differently from articles in the strict sense of the word The standard styles will treat this entry type as an alias for article proceedings A single volume conference proceedings This type is very similar to collec tion It supports an optional organization field which holds the sponsoring institution The editor is omissible mvproceedings A multi volume proceedings entry For backwards compatibility multi volume proceed ings are also supported by the entry type proceedings However it is advisable to make use of the dedicated entry type mvproceedings inproceedings An article in a conference proceedings This type is similar to incollection It supports an optional organization field reference A single volume work of reference such as an encyclopedia or a dictionary This is a more specific variant of the generic collection entry type The standard styles will treat this entry t
15. as indicator in the Biblatex documentation Shorten author in short citations When this check box is checked in the citations following the first one only the family name of the author or of the editor in its place will be printed not the name 16 Add backslash to periods in citations When this check box is checked in each citation every period question mark or exclamation mark followed by a space etc will be replaced by the same character followed by a backslash and a space etc The space preceded by a backslash will not be considered by LaTex at the end of a period and so will not be printed as double space even if the frenchspacing command has not been activated Page and pages numbers are preceded by These two fields contain the text that should precede the pages field or the pages reference in a postnote The first field contains the text to be printed when a single page is indicated whereas the second field contains the text to be printed when more pages are indicated that is a hyphen is contained within the pages field or the postnote Usually they are filled as p and pp or are just empty Citation as ibidem if it s the same as before When this check box is checked if a citation is relative to the same item book article etc of the previous one and if they are both within the same area it will be replaced by an ibidem indication which can be specified by the user The
16. attern it is possible to define the pattern of the BibTex keys generated by the software To define it just type the names of the desired fields within pipes followed by square brackets and two digits within them The digits specify the number of characters of the field which must be copied in the key If the value is 00 then the first word will be copied except for the author and the editor fields In this last case if there is a comma in the field the whole first family name will be copied even if it s composed of two or more words if there is no comma then just the first word will be copied In these fields the first space will be removed if it s within the first 3 characters to get properly the name of authors like S Francis Possible text outside the pipes and the square brackets will be printed as it is Few examples Pattern Output author 00 year 04 Schmidt2013 author 00 year 04 Schmidt 2013 author 00 year 04 Schmidt 2013 author 00 year 04 title 05 Schmidt2013Dicti author 00 year 04 title 10 author 00 year 04 title 15 author 00 year 04 title 00 Schmidt2013Dictionary Schmidt2013Dictionaryofcom Schmidt2013Dictionary author 00 year 04 title 00 author 00 year 04 title 00 Schmidt 2013 Dictionary Schmidt 2013 Dictionary If the author field is specified in the fiel
17. ber or record token of a patent or patent request organization The organization s that published a manual or an online resource or sponsored a conference origdate If the work is a translation a reprint or something similar the publication date of the original edition Not used by the standard bibliography styles See also date origlanguage field key If the work is a translation the language of the original work See also language origlanguage If the work is a translation the language of the original work See also language origlocation If the work is a translation a reprint or something similar the location of the original edition Not used by the standard bibliography styles origpublisher If the work is a translation a reprint or something similar the publisher of the original edition Not used by the standard bibliography styles origtitle If the work is a translation the title of the original work Not used by the standard bibliography styles See also title pages One or more page numbers or page ranges If the work is published as part of another one such as an article in a journal or a collection this field holds the relevant page range in that other work It may also be used to limit the reference to a specific part of a work a chapter in a book for example pagetotal The total number of pages of the work 28 pagination The pagination of the work The value of this field will affect the formatting t
18. d BibTex key composition and in the current item has no value the content of the editor field will be used instead of it All authors When this check box is checked if the field author is included in the BibTex key pattern if there are more than one author or editor if the author is not indicated and the length of the characters to be copied is 00 then all their family names will be included in the key 15 For example if the authors are Schmidt John and Miller Paul and Taylor Luis they key could be SchmidtMillerTaylor2013Dictionary Key lowercase When this check box is checked the BibTex keys will be created in lower case 4 2 Citations options In this tab are gathered the options related with the composition of the citations Separator among authors and In this field are specified the characters that will be used in the citations to separate the names of the authors and of the editors fields author bookauthors and editor when they are more than one in the same field these characters will replace the and word possibly present in those fields Usually they are More authors and others In this field are specified the words that will be used in the citations to replace the and others indication to mean that there are more authors bookauthors or editors than those typed in these fields 1 Editor in place of author if this is empty When this check bo
19. e the editor to the booktitle i e the title of the collection suppcollection Supplemental material in a collection This type is similar to suppbook but related to the collection entry type The standard styles will treat this entry type as an alias for incollection manual Technical or other documentation not necessarily in printed form The author or editor is omissible misc A fallback type for entries which do not fit into any other category Use the field howpublished to supply publishing information in free format if applicable The field type may be useful as well author editor and year are omissible online An online resource author editor and year are omissible This entry type is intended for sources such as web sites which are intrinsically online resources Note that all entry types support the url field For example when adding an article from an online journal it may be preferable to use the article type and its url field 22 patent A patent or patent request The number or record token is given in the number field Use the type field to specify the type and the location field to indicate the scope of the patent if different from the scope implied by the type Note that the location field is treated as a key list with this entry type periodical An complete issue of a periodical such as a special issue of a journal The title of the periodical is given in the title field If the issue has its own title in
20. ed only at the end of it in order to work properly Each new keyword will be suggested with a space and a comma at the end of it the last space and comma may be removed by the user or will be removed by the software when the item will be saved To filter items by keyword just type one or more of them in the Filter keywords box and press Return Also in this box auto completion can be activated with Ctrl Space or Ctrl Shift Space The typed keywords may be saved in the drop down list of this field or removed from it with the buttons Add and Remove To filter items using a saved keyword just select it in the drop down list The list of the keywords is remembered by the software In the compilation area below the Entry type box it s available a check box with the label Owned useful to mark the current item as owned by the user The content of this field will not be exported in Biblatex file since it s not a standard field Still below there is a label showing the date and the time of the last change made to the current item It is filled with the value of the timestamp Biblatex field which is compiled automatically by the software If this field is empty for instance because an item has been imported from another software nothing will be shown Just over the fields grid are shown the author and the title of the current item separated by a slash to help the user to remember which is t
21. errides the default label If any of the cited bibliography entries includes a shorthand field biblatex automatically builds a list of shorthands which may be printed in addition to the regular bibliography See also label shorthandintro The verbose citation styles which comes with this package use a phrase like henceforth cited as shorthand to introduce shorthands on the first citation If the shorthandintro field is defined it overrides the standard phrase Note that the alternative phrase must include the shorthand shortjournal A short version or an acronym of the journaltitle Not used by the standard bibliography styles shortseries A short version or an acronym of the series field Not used by the standard bibliography styles shorttitle The title in an abridged form This field is usually not included in the bibliography It is intended for citations in author title format If present the author title citation styles use this field instead of title 29 subtitle The subtitle of the work title The title of the work titleaddon An annex to the title to be printed in a different font translator The translator s of the title or booktitle depending on the entry type If the translator is identical to the editor the standard styles will automatically concatenate these fields in the bibliography type The type of a manual patent report or thesis This field may also be useful for the custom types listed in 2 1 3
22. f the cell will be used for the citation only if that field is not empty otherwise all its content will be skipped On the contrary if in a cell there is no field name all the content of the cell will be actually printed in the citation Obviously the name of a field will be replaced with its content To insert the name of a field just type it between two pipes e g author title etc Only one file for each cell is allowed The Citations pattern grid is filled by default by a basic citation pattern for all types made by author and title Each citation type may be redefined by the user The modifications are remembered by the software The buttons Load and Save allow to load and to save an XML file with the content of the grid in this way a full citations pattern may be saved as a backup or shared with other people The field Pattern loaded is compiled by the software with the name of the last pattern loaded by the user Anyway the content of this field may be modified manually by the user to remember with citations pattern is in use 4 4 Conversion In this section it s possible to set how Pandoc or other software should convert a file with extended citation created by Bibfilex This conversion is activated with the menu item Tools Replace and convert 18 Destination format The options group allows to chose the format in which Pandoc should convert the file with extended citati
23. f words that must not be considered in the creation of a BibTex key This functionality will have no effects in the copy of the author and editor fields When the software creates a key if the first word of a field is included in the stop list it s skipped and the next one is included in the key In this way it is possible to ignore articles and other words that may not be significant as a reminder of an item Each word that should be skipped in creating a BibText key must be typed in a new line within the text field of the form With the button Sort it is possible to sort them all Each word in the stop list is supposed to be followed by a space in the fields unless it end with a apostrophe If a wird to be skipped ends with a dot like S as the beginning of S Francis etc type it it the list without the dot 20 Chapter 6 Biblatex basic rules In this part of the manual are reported some basic information to compile the fields of an item according to Biblatex rules They have been taken from Puitirpp LEHMAN The biblatex Package Programmable Bibliographies and Citations Version 2 9a available in http mirrors ctan org macros latex contrib biblatex doc biblatex pdf 6 1 Author and editor The author bookauthor and editors fields must be compiled as Family name Name If they are not physical persons but institutions no comma must be used inside it If the authors and editors are more than one then
24. he current item If the author or the title fields contain a LaTex formatting command like emph they will not be shown in this label In order to avoid unwanted changes of the bibtex keys the Bibtexkey field is read only it cannot be modified directly and has a gray background Its content can be changed only with the menu items Create BibTex key and Modify BibTex key see below for more information The Abstract and Review fields have a slightly bigger font than the other fields to make them readable more easily Furthermore their font size may be increased or decreased with Ctrl plus character and Ctrl less character or with the mouse wheel while holding the Ctrl button The name of their tabs is preceded by a bullet if there is some text within them Furthermore with Ctrl Shift H it s possible to clear the content of both these fields of all the single carriage returns that is of all the line breakings that are not empty lines This is useful when it s pasted within these fields some text from a pdf or other source that turns out to be many single lines ending with a carriage return To have a normally formatted text just add empty lines where the paragraphs should be divided and then use this shortcut to remove the exceeding carriage returns It s possibile to insert the bibtex key of the current item within the cite command in the Abstract and Review
25. he postnote argument to a citation command The key should be given in the singular form Possible keys are page column line verse section and paragraph See also bookpagination part The number of a partial volume This field applies to books only not to journals It may be used when a logical volume consists of two or more physical ones In this case the number of the logical volume goes in the volume field and the number of the part of that volume in the part field See also volume publisher The name s of the publisher s pubstate The publication state of the work e g in press reprinttitle The title of a reprint of the work Not used by the standard styles series The name of a publication series such as Studies in or the number of a journal series Books in a publication series are usually numbered The number or volume of a book ina series is given in the number field Note that the article entry type makes use of the series field as well but handles it in a special way shortauthor The author s of the work given in an abbreviated form This field is mainly intended for abbreviated forms of corporate authors shorteditor The editor s of the work given in an abbreviated form This field is mainly intended for abbreviated forms of corporate editors shorthand A special designation to be used by the citation style instead of the usual label This field is intended for citation aliasing If defined it ov
26. he title booktitle or maintitle depending on the entry type Use the editortype field to specify the role if it is different from editor See 2 3 6 for further hints editora A secondary editor performing a different editorial role such as compiling redacting etc Use the editoratype field to specify the role editorb Another secondary editor performing a different role Use the editorbtype field to specify the role editorc Another secondary editor performing a different role Use the editorctype field to specify the role editortype The type of editorial role performed by the editor Roles supported by default are editor compiler founder continuator redactor reviser collaborator The role editor is the default In this case the field is omissible editoratype Similar to editortype but referring to the editora field editorbtype Similar to editortype but referring to the editorb field editorctype Similar to editortype but referring to the editorc field eid The electronic identifier of an article 25 entrysubtype This field which is not used by the standard styles may be used to specify a subtype of an entry type This may be useful for bibliography styles which support a finer grained set of entry types eprint The electronic identifier of an online publication This is roughly comparable to a doi but specific to a certain archive repository service or system See 3 11 7 for details Also see eprint
27. hic data to be printed at the end of the entry This is similar to the note field except that it is printed at the end of the bibliography entry afterword The author s of an afterword to the work If the author of the afterword is identical to the editor and or translator the standard styles will automatically concatenate these fields in the bibliography See also introduction and foreword annotation This field may be useful when implementing a style for annotated bibliographies It is not used by all standard bibliography styles Note that this field is completely unrelated to annotator The annotator is the author of annotations which are part of the work cited annotator The author s of annotations to the work If the annotator is identical to the editor and or translator the standard styles will automatically concatenate these fields in the bibliography See also commentator author The author s of the title authortype The type of author This field will affect the string if any used to introduce the author Not used by the standard bibliography styles bookauthor The author s of the booktitle bookpagination If the work is published as part of another one this is the pagination scheme of the enclosing work i e bookpagination relates to pagination like booktitle to title The value of this field will affect the formatting of the pages and pagetotal fields The key should be given in the singular form Possible keys are page
28. hment is loaded and it is deleted when the last attachment is deleted The name of every zipped attachment is made by some numbers the ID identifier of the item and the original name of the attached file so it is possible to enter the attachment directory search for a specific file unzip it and view it or load it somewhere else Since attachments are not stored within the database but in an external directory their number and size are limited only by the available disk space The attachments of a single item could not have the same name but different items may have attachments with the same name Chapter 2 Menu items 2 1 File New Create a new file of Bibfilex Open Opena file of Bibfilex Close Close the Bibfilex file in use Copy as Copy the file in use along with its possible attachments directory with another name Create Biblatex file Export the whole content of the file in use in a Biblatex file with the same name and the bib extension and contained in the same directory no confirmation is requested Even if a filter is applied all the data will be exported anyway Possible attachments will not be exported The aim of this functionality is to update easily the Biblatex file which is referenced in Latex documents as bibliographic file In the Options of Bibfilex it is possible to specify to create automatically an updated Biblatex file just before quitting the software This will happen only if some changes have been
29. ilter to the items without closing the form Clear fields Clear all fields content but do not remove the filter Remove filter Remove the filter showing all the items Close Close the form 13 Chapter 4 Options form In the Options form it is possible to specify some options of the software It s structured in four tabs 4 1 General options Fields shown in grid The list contains the items fields to be shown or to be hidden in the read only items grid in the left side of the main form To show a field check its name in the list or uncheck it to hide the field The contents of the abstract and review fields will not be shown in the items grid but only the word memo It will be uppercase if the fields contain some text Font size The list allows to change the font size of the interface just select the desired value within it Date format The option group allows to change the format of the date everywhere in the software in the form in the exported files etc During the importation of a Biblatex file the format of the date must match the one of the imported file Exportation in Biblatex Use double brackets When this check box is checked all the items are exported in a Biblatex file between double curly brackets This may be useful to facilitate the importation of the file in other software Export abstracts as reviews When this check box is checked the Abstract fields will be exported wi
30. l the citations that follow the command specified in that option group and that come before the next recurrence of the same command even if they are in the body of the text Anyway if the author is the same of the bookauthor for instance because we have an assay within a collection of assays of the same author the bookauthor will be replaced with the idem indication Furthermore note that the software cannot distinguish between authors who have the same name and family name but are different persons so if this options is activated and there are homonymies among the authors of the text to be converted the user should check carefully the final citations For instance is this check box is disabled two citations in the same area could be M Rosin A guide to computer ED Publishing New York 2000 M Rosin Computer today RT Publishing London 2010 If the check box is enabled the same citations become M Rosin A guide to computer ED Publishing New York 2000 Ib Computer today RT Publishing London 2010 Idem text in the footnotes In this field is specified the text that will replace the author or the editor in its place within the footnotes or in the body of the text to mean that it s the same 17 of the previous citation Idem text in the bibliography In this field is specified the text that will replace the author or the editor in its place within the bibliography to mean that it s the same of the previous citation
31. lds must be included only between single curly brackets not double at least the dates fields Escaped LaTex characters also in uppercase e g a for a etc will be converted in the corresponding printed ones BibTex keys of the imported items will be possibly changed if they are already present in the file in use to avoid duplicate entries Bibfilex will try to import possible attachments referenced in the file field Best results will be obtained if this field is compiled in the JabRef way Export to Bibfilex Export in an existing Bibfilex file the content of the Bibfilex file in use along with possibile atachments If a filter is active only the filtered items will be exported Import from Bibfilex Import in the file in use all the items of another Bibfilex file along with possible attachments Names of the last four files opened Open the corresponding file Exit Quit the software 2 2 Items New Create a new item and set its type as book obviously this type may be modified by the user also after data input Save Save all changes made to current item Delete Delete the current item or the selected items and all their possible attachments Undo changes Cancel all changes made to the current item Attachments It has four options New Attach a file to the current item the name will be shown in the attachments list It is possible to add attachments also dragging and dropping one or more files on the fo
32. n the word processor Compact When an item is deleted it remains physically in the file in use even if it cannot be shown with this option it is possible to select a file of Bibfilex and to purge it by deleted items so that its size may be proportionally reduced It is not possible to select the file in use 11 Upgrade data A new version of Bibfilex might require to upgrade the structure of the files This menu item allows to upgrade the structure of user Bibfilex files to the last version so it should be used on all user files when a new version of Biblatex is installed It can be used safely since if the version of a file is already the last one nothing will be done to it When the upgrading is actually performed the original version of the file will be preserved with the bak extension If a file just converted cannot be opened in Bibfilex quit the software run it again and open the file 12 Chapter 3 Standard filter form In the Standard filter form it is possible to specify the criteria to filter the items of the file in use Up to three different fields may be selected in the boxes Field 1 Field 2 and Field 3 using the drop down list or the arrow keys up and down or just typing the name of the field The corresponding conditions to each one of them must be selected in the Condition 1 Condition 2 and Condition 3 boxes The corresponding values must be typed in the fields Value
33. nbook but intended for works originally published as a stand alone book A typical example are books reprinted in the collected works of an author suppbook Supplemental material in a book This type is closely related to the inbook entry type While inbook is primarily intended for a part of a book with its own title e g a single essay in a collection of essays by the same author this type is provided for elements such as prefaces introductions forewords afterwords etc which often have a generic title only Style guides may require such items to be formatted differently from other inbook items The standard styles will treat this entry type as an alias for inbook booklet A book like work without a formal publisher or sponsoring institution Use the field howpublished to supply publishing information in free format if applicable The field type may be useful as well collection A single volume collection with multiple self contained contributions by distinct authors which have their own title The work as a whole has no overall author but it will usually have an editor mvcollection A multi volume collection For backwards compatibility multi volume collections are also supported by the entry type collection However it is advisable to make use of the dedicated entry type mvcollection incollection A contribution to a collection which forms a self contained unit with a distinct author and title The author refers to the titl
34. nsitive If the selected field is IDItems then the following syntax is possible e type one number to select only the item whose IDItems field is equal to that number e type two numbers separated by a dash e g 1000 2000 to select all the items whose IDItems field are equal or more than the first number and equal or less than the second type a number preceded by the lt character e g lt 2000 to select all the items whose IDItems field is equal or less than the number type an ID number preceded by gt character e g gt 2000 to select all the items whose IDItems field is equal or more then the number If the selected field is neither Author nor IDItems then the filter will select all the items in which the specified field begins with the text typed by the user followed by Return the filter is case insensitive The selected field will be remembered by the software When compiling a field it is possible to activate the auto completion press Ctrl Space or Ctrl Shift Space to have the typed text completed with the most similar value of the same field already present in the file in use The Crossref field will be completed with the BibTex keys of all the items of the file in use The Keywords field may be filled with different keywords they must separated by a comma and a space so that the software may distinguish each of them The auto completion in this field should be activat
35. ntent of a file in Biblatex format like a JabRef database a BibTex file exported from Mendeley or downloaded from Google Books export data in a Biblatex file import and export data from a Bibfilex file to another along with possible attachments filter the items on a single field filter the items by keywords filter the items on three fields or less or modify manually the SOL statement of the filter to work on more fields or to make it more suitable or complex e filter the items by the BibTex keys contained in a Latex document within a cite command or the like replace the citation commands cite etc and printbibliography command in a Latex document with extended citations and bibliography which are composed according to a user defined pattern and convert the resulting file in other formats with Pandoc http johnmacfarlane net pandoc associate various attachments files of every kind to each item the attachments are zipped and stored in a directory with the same name and path of the Bibfilex file in use and automatically managed by the software the number of attachments is limited only by the available disk space activate auto completion of data in each field with Ctrl Space or Ctrl Shift Space compose the citation of one or more items according to a user defined pattern and copy them in the clipboard in Latex or HTML format in the last case the citation may be pasted in a word processor like Writer or
36. ons produced by Bibfilex The comand that is run is the following pandoc filename fullcitations tex o filename odt Obviously the extension of the convert file is changed according to the chosen format Anyway if the last options is checked a user defined command will be run insted of the one above to create the converted file User defined command In this field it s possibile to enter a command to run a converter different from Pandoc or to run it with specific parameters It is used when the last option of the previous option group is selected In this command the name of the input file that is selected with the menu item Tools Replace and convert should be entered as i while the name of the output file as o followed by its extension For instance a user defined command that runs Pandoc in the same way of the predefined options is pandoc i o o odt Directory of Pandoc Windows and OS X users only To run Pandoc in Windows and in OS X it s necessary to specify its complete path in this field For instance in Windows it could be C Users UserName AppData Local Pandoc whereas in OS X it could be usr local bin With the button Select directory it s possibile to look and select the directory in which Pandoc is installed and to add its name in the field A path delimiter must be present after the name of the directory 19 Chapter 5 Stop list In the Stop list form it is possible to write a list o
37. r a number Since the placement of issue is similar to month and number this field may also be useful with double issues and other special cases See also month number issuesubtitle The subtitle of a specific issue of a journal or other periodical issuetitle The title of a specific issue of a journal or other periodical iswc The International Standard Work Code of a musical work Not used by the standard bibliography styles journalsubtitle The subtitle of a journal a newspaper or some other periodical journaltitle The name of a journal a newspaper or some other periodical label A designation to be used by the citation style as a substitute for the regular label if any data required to generate the regular label is missing For example when an author year citation style is generating a citation for an entry which is missing the author or the year it may fall back to label Note that in contrast to shorthand label is only used as a fallback See also shorthand language The language s of the work Languages may be specified literally or as localization keys If localization keys are used the prefix lang is omissible See also origlanguage library This field may be useful to record information such as a library name and a call number This may be printed by a special bibliography style if desired Not used by the standard bibliography styles location The place s of publication i e the location of the publisher or institu
38. rm of the software The same function is called with a double click on the attachment list if it is empty Open Open the attachment selected in the attachments list after having saved it in the temp directory the same can be done with a double click on the attachment name Save as Save the attachment selected in the attachments list with its original name only the destination directory can be chosen Delete Delete the attachment selected in the attachments list Create BibTex key Generate a unique BibTex key according to a pattern specified in the Options of the software and write it in the field BibTexKey of the current item If the generated key is already present in the file in use a dash and a small letter is added at the end of it to make it unique Modify BibTex key Open a box to type a new BibTex key for the current item which will overwrite the existing one If the key is already present in the file in use a dash and a small letter is added at the end of it to make it unique This is the only way to modify manually the BibTex key since its field in the content grid is read only Copy BibTex key Copy in the clipboard the BibTex key of the current item or of the selected items along with the Latex command for citations e g cite KeyName If the selection of more items is disabled the user has the possibility to type in a box the postnote e g the pages of the citation or to confirm the empty postnote suggested
39. st Special characters Open the Special characters form useful to insert a special character in a field which is in editing or in the Smart filter box or in the Filter keywords box Move with the arrow keys on the desired character and press Return o double click on it to insert it in the field Use Esc the close the form without doing anything Keywords list Open the Keywords list form useful to insert one of the keywords already present in the file in use within the Keywords field which is in editing Move with the arrow keys on the desired keyword or search for it typing it in the Find box click on the button Insert or press Return or double click on a keyword to insert it in the field Use Esc key or the Close button to close the form To update the list of the keywords use the menu item Items Update keywords list 10 Check for double items Open a form to check for double items in the file in use Click on the button Check to fill the grid at the center of the form with the possible double items In this grid the items printed in normal style are supposed to be the same than the previous one printed in bold Two or more items are considered the same if they have the same author title and year If the grid is filled with some items double click or press Return on one of them to have it selected in the main form of the software in order
40. te there is a pipe the text that is before it will be printed just after the title and a space whereas what follows it will be printed at the end of the citation This functionality which do not work with BibTex or Biber since it s not a default Biblatex option is useful to print the number of a document or the like which is different from the pages of the citation If there is a postnote element with page numbers the possible pages field for instance referring to the whole pages of an inbook item will not be printed Some characteristics of the extended citations can be modified in the Options Obviously all the BibTex keys within the Latex document must be present in the file in use if not the user will receive a warning about that and will be warned to look within the converted file for unresolved citation commands Basically this functionality allows to create a Latex file that do not need any more the Biber and Biblatex features and so can be converted more easily in other formats like Open Document without the issues related to the bibliographic packages Replace and convert Open a Latex document and replace all its citation commands with the corresponding extended citations and bibliography according to a pattern defined in the Options just like the previous functionality and then convert it in a Writer or Word file using Pandoc or other software In the first case the resulting file will be automatically opened i
41. th a Review label like the content of the Review fields This is useful to import properly the Abstract fields in Zotero and in other software who do not recognize the field Abstract Note that this option may produce items with two Review fields if both the Abstract and the Review fields contain some text While Zotero and other software may import them both Bibfilex will import only the last one So to create a Biblatex file to be imported in Bibfilex do not activate this option 14 Do not export abstracts and reviews When this check box is checked neither the Abstract fields nor the Review ones will be exported in the Biblatex file This is useful to get smaller Biblatex files when they are just referenced within a LaTex document and are not used to share bibliographic information This option prevails over the previous one Start quit and look Open the last file on start When this check box is checked the last file is opened automatically when the software starts Create Biblatex file on exit When this check box is checked the exportation of Biblatex file menu item File Create Biblatex file is started automatically just before quitting the software if the file is use has been changed Rows in field grids When this check box is checked the Biblatex fields in the grids are separated by rows to make them more readable BibTex key pattern In the field BibTex key p
42. the common categories indextitle A title to use for indexing instead of the regular title field This field may be useful if you have an entry with a title like An Introduction to and want that indexed as Introduction to An Style authors should note that biblatex automatically copies the value of the title field to indextitle if the latter field is undefined institution The name of a university or some other institution depending on the entry type Traditional BibTeX uses the field name school for theses which is supported as an alias introduction The author s of an introduction to the work If the author of the introduction is identical to the editor and or translator the standard styles will automatically concatenate these fields in the bibliography See also foreword and afterword 26 isan The International Standard Audiovisual Number of an audiovisual work Not used by the standard bibliography styles isbn The International Standard Book Number of a book ismn The International Standard Music Number for printed music such as musical scores Not used by the standard bibliography styles isrn The International Standard Technical Report Number of a technical report issn The International Standard Serial Number of a periodical issue The issue of a journal This field is intended for journals whose individual issues are identified by a designation such as Spring or Summer rather than the month o
43. thin it Standard filter Open the Standard filter form see below chapter Standard filter form Remove filter Removes a filter on the items showing all of them All kind of filters are removed Copy from crossref Copy in the current item the content of some fields of another item whose bibtex key is written in the Crossref field The search of the bibtex key is case insensitive The nexus among the current item fields and the referenced ones follows the rules of the manual of Biblatex with some adjustments Order It has seven options useful to sort the items on one or more fields The options are ID Item sort only on IDItem Author sort on author and title Title sort on title and author Journal title sort on journaltitle and author Book title sort on booktitle and author Year sort on year author and title and Change date sort on timestamp author and title The choice is remembered by the software If the field is ID Item when a file is opened then the last record will be selected 2 3 Tools Options Open the Option form see below chapter Options Stop list Open the Stop list form useful to specify a series of words like articles etc that should not be included in a BibTex key when it is automatically generated see below chapter Stop li
44. tion depending on the entry type Traditional BibTeX uses the field name address which is supported as an alias With patent entries this list indicates the scope of a patent mainsubtitle The subtitle related to the maintitle See also subtitle 27 maintitle The main title of a multi volume book such as Collected Works If the title or booktitle field indicates the title of a single volume which is part of multi volume book the title of the complete work is given in this field maintitleaddon An annex to the maintitle to be printed in a different font month The publication month This must be an integer not an ordinal or a string Don t say month January but month 1 The bibliography style converts this to a language de pendent string or ordinal where required nameaddon An addon to be printed immediately after the author name in the bibliography Not used by the standard bibliography styles This field may be useful to add an alias or pen name or give the real name if the pseudonym is commonly used to refer to that author note Miscellaneous bibliographic data which does not fit into any other field The note field may be used to record bibliographic data in a free format Publication facts such as Reprint of the edition London 1831 are typical candidates for the note field See also addendum number The number of a journal or the volume number of a book in a series See also issue With patent entries this is the num
45. turn or F2 twice or click twice on the field when it s already selected To change the whole content of a field just select it and begin to type Other shortcuts are indicated in the corresponding menu items 1 2 General guidelines The width of the columns of the items grid is sized automatically according to the data shown in the visible rows Scrolling the items the data for each column may be wider than the column and so not shown completely To resize automatically the width of the columns click on the button Autosize at the bottom of the grid If an items has one or more attachments its ID value is shown in bold in the grid Under the grid there is a checkbox called Select more rows Checking it it is possible to select more items at a time in the same grid in order to delete them or to copy their BibTex keys or citations in the clipboard To select more rows Ctrl click on each one of them or use the arrow keys up and down while holding down the Shift button With a double click on the items grid the same field selected in the grid will be focused in the compilation area if it is actually used by the current entry type The Smart filter allows to filter the items using a condition on a single field If the selected field is Author then the filter will select all the items in which the specified field contains the text typed by the user followed by Return the filter is case inse
46. tware no run time framework is needed like Java Virtual Machine or Net framework and data are stored in a fast database Bibfilex may create and manage files which are catalogs of many items also thousands of them A file of Bibfilex is a database of SQLite www sqlite org a popular software whose data can be easily read and exported through different tools available on the Internet In a Bibfilex file data are not stored in a plain text file according to Biblatex format so it cannot be referenced as bibliographic file within a Latex document Anyway Bibfilex may export automatically or with a one click functionality all or part of the content of an archive in a plain text file in Biblatex format this one can be read directly with JabRef or be referenced in a Latex document At the same time Bibfilex may import directly a JabRef database or any other Biblatex file Bibfilex introduces few changes in the position of some fields when compared to the official manual of Biblatex In the list of the required fields have been added some others which sometimes are requested in the humanistic field like publisher location etc In this way all the fields which are more frequently compiled are show all together in the Main fields section of the interface The main features of the software are e store the items according to each one of the entry types described in the Biblatex manual book article etc e import the co
47. type and eprintclass eprintclass Additional information related to the resource indicated by the eprinttype field This could be a section of an archive a path indicating a service a classification of some sort etc Also see eprint and eprinttype eprinttype The type of eprint identifier e g the name of the archive repository service or system the eprint field refers to Also see eprint and eprintclass eventdate The date of a conference a symposium or some other event in proceedings and inproceedings entries See also eventtitle and venue eventtitle The title of a conference a symposium or some other event in proceedings and inproceedings entries Note that this field holds the plain title of the event Things like Proceedings of the Fifth XYZ Conference go into the titleaddon or booktitleaddon field respectively See also eventdate and venue eventtitleaddon An annex to the eventtitle field Can be used for known event acronyms for example foreword The author s of a foreword to the work If the author of the foreword is identical to the editor and or translator the standard styles will automatically concatenate these fields in the bibliography See also introduction and afterword holder The holder s of a patent if different from the author Not that corporate holders need to be wrapped in an additional set of braces howpublished A publication notice for unusual publications which do not fit into any of
48. w or delete attachments Attachments or compile the fields related with the selected type Main fields Optional fields 1 Optional fields 2 Optional fields 3 Abstract and Review tabs The 6 icons replicate few menu functionalities File New File Open Items Save Items New Items Standard filter and File Create Biblatex file With the shortcuts Ctrl 1 Ctrl 2 Ctrl 3 Ctrl 4 Ctrl 5 and Ctrl 6 it is possible to select one of the 6 tabs in the compilation area The usual shortcuts Ctrl C Ctrl V and Ctrl X works as usual to copy paste and delete the selected text F12 allows to focus the field of the smart filter see below When the items grid the Abstract field or the Review field are not focused it is possible to move to the first to the previous to the next and to the last item with Ctrl Home Ctrl PgUp Ctrl PgDn and Ctrl End To set a bookmark to the current item use the shortcut Ctrl Shift 0 to 9 so 10 bookmarks are available To go to a bookmark use the shortcut Ctrl Alt 0 to 9 The bookmark list is cleaned when the file in use is closed The grids in the compilation area works like the one of a spreadsheet To change the value of a field select it and press Re
49. x is checked if the author or a bookauthor field is empty and the editor field is filled the content of the former fields will be replaced with the content of the latter In this way if there is no author the editor will be put in its place If in the citation pattern see below the editor field is conteined in another cell it will be skipped since it s just inserted in the place of the author For instance is this check box is disabled a citation could be A guide to computer edited by M Robin Is the check box is enabled it will be M Rosin ed A guide to computer Editor in place of author is followed by In this field is specified the text that will follow the editor when it s printed in the place of the author or of the bookauthor like ed Use initial of authors name When this check box is checked only the initial letter of the names of the authors of the bookauthors and of the editors with be printed Shorten title in short citations When this check box is checked in the citations following the first one the title will be shortened up to the first asterisk or to the first period or to the first exclamation mark or to the first question mark or the first colon The best way to indicate where the title should be shortened is to type an asterisk in the title field just after the last word to be included The asterisk will not be exported in any Biblatex files since it s not mentioned
50. ype as an alias for collection mvreference A multi volume reference entry The standard styles will treat this entry type as an alias for mvcollection For backwards compatibility multi volume references are also supported by the entry type reference However it is advisable to make use of the dedicated entry type mvreference inreference An article in a work of reference report A technical report research report or white paper published by a university or some other institution Use the type field to specify the type of report The sponsoring institution goes in the institution field thesis A thesis written for an educational institution to satisfy the requirements for a degree Use the type field to specify the type of thesis 23 unpublished A work with an author and a title which has not been formally published such as a manuscript or the script of a talk Use the fields howpublished and note to supply additional information in free format if applicable 6 3 Entry fields Some optional fields have not been implemented in Bibfilex abstract This field is intended for recording abstracts in a bib file to be printed by a special biblio graphy style It is not used by all standard bibliography styles review This field is intended for recording review in a bib file to be printed by a special biblio graphy style It is not used by Biblatex but it is used in some bibliography managers addendum Miscellaneous bibliograp

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