Publishing Your Bibliography On The Web

If you are working with a group that needs to share a central bank of references - (for a course, for instance, or a research group working on a project, a department with reading lists for general exams) it's easy to use Citation to write a bibliography you can post on your Web site.

Here's how:

1.     Open your datafile with Citation.

2.     Click Generate Bibliography, and set the Publishing style option to one of the HTML styles (see the illustration below).

3.     Click on the Write Bibliography to: button to enter a *.htm filename for the bibliography.

4.     Click Save to set the options, and then click OK on the Bibliography dialog to write your html document with references for the records in your datafile.

5.     Copy the html document to your website, and send your group the URL.

Adding graphics and a title

You can open your html bibliography with any text editor or word processor to add a title for your bibliography, graphics, and instructions for the fonts for your bibliogaphy. Selecting a subset

If you need to write a bibliography of source works pertaining to a particular issue (or that have a certain keyword) - just use Citation's Select feature to create a subset of your datafile. Then write the html file to post from the subset.

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