In this case I am creating a file called packages.bib in the content section of my blogdown site. The write_bib() function allows us to add in a vector of package names, and to specify the path and name for the file using file =. Let’s create a file that contains packages mentioned in this article. Yihui Xie has made it incredibly easy to create a bibliography in bibtex format with the knitr package. One of the puzzling things about getting started with creating bibliographies in RStudio… is how to create a bibliography file.

Once we have a grip on that we will use rcrossref. To get started we will install the packages we are going to need and then look at how to quickly create a bibliography file for packages we are going to use. For R users, Scott Chamberlain, Carl Boettiger, Ted Hart and Karthik Ram have developed the rcrossref package as part of the ever growing suite of ROpenSci packages. It is not a full text database but is increasingly providing access to abstracts and links to full texts.Ĭrossref can be accessed through an API. From experience, this generally involves masses of hours fiddling around with reference formats and so on before and after submission for publication.Ĭrossref is a non-profit organisation that provides metadata on over 96 million publications in the form of information on the authors, titles, organisations, funding and so on. Software such as Endnote (Clarivate Analytics), Mendeley (Elsevier) and Zotero provide options for creating and managing bibliographic data. Many of us will have spent an unreasonable amount of our time struggling to create bibliographies for a thesis, publication or reports. The article is part of work in progress for the WIPO Handbook on Patent Analytics.

To help us get started we will also look at how to reference any R packages that you use in your work with knitr. In this article we will look at how to create a bibliography using the rcrossref package in R with RStudio.

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