[Corpora-List] Reference Management Tools?

[Detmar Meurers]

Dear Haiyang,
    
    I'm a phd student in applied linguistics and trying to get
    organized by using a bibliography/reference management tools for
    all the papers that I read, before it piles up real quick.
    
I would recommend JabRef http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ The tool runs
on various OSes and is very flexible, supports linking for quick
viewing, adding notes and abstracts, it imports and exports many
formats, it's free and has been around for a good while.

    I used EndNote before but later tried to switch BibTeX, so that I
    can use in LaTeX for writing academic papers. But there's a
    problem: most journals, even in Corpus Linguistics seems to accept
    M$ Word document, rather than PDF. So it doesn't make sense to do
    the LaTeX + BibTeX. Should I just get back to EndNote and forget
    about the LaTeX all together?
    
The number of publication outlets in computational and applied
linguistics has grown quite dramatically in the past 20 years - so
there are a lot of options and you have more freedom than you think to
weigh the options.  So I would recommend taking the format they accept
into account in your decision to which outlet you submit your work,
just like you do other aspects (length and quality of reviewing
process, whether it is open access or allows free internet access
after a year, etc.)  

Interaction with publishers/editors also is not necessarily as narrow
minded as the "Guidelines for Authors" sometimes suggest. Several
times I have asked journal editors whether submitting pdf is ok
instead of word, and it turned out to be no problem and worked with
latex+pdf all the way down to the publication - just less unusual in
some outlets.

So things are less bleak then they may seem at first sight - from my
limited experience (not long, but not short, since 1994), I've never
had to submit a paper on computational/theoretical/applied linguistics
in Word to get it published (with one exception, where the co-authors
worked in Word and they did the conversion). So I'd say, consider your
priorities and evaluate the publication options accordingly.

Best,
Detmar

--
Dr. Detmar Meurers, Universität Tübingen, http://purl.org/dm
Professor of Computational Linguistics & Head of Department
Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Wilhelmstr. 19, 72074 Tübingen, Germany

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