Comments on: Releasing Reference Manager (Beta) For Word 2007

By: Jeff Tilson

Jeff Tilson — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:58:14 +0000

I installed the plugin without problem. However, when I try to export citations from a word doc to bibtex ( or other formats) , most of the fields are empty ( year, pages, etc). These entries certainly are in the original citation that is part of the “managed citations”. Is this a configuration issue?

Thanks

By: biology phd student

biology phd student — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:41:42 +0000

Thank you very much. I spend already many hours searching a tool to use JabRef directly in Word 2007 and nothing worked. Your tool works. It is awesome!

However I d like to use the Am Nat (American Naturalist) style in Word 2007. Is there something like a plug in for that? Now I use Chicago style, but it s not the same so I ll have to correct a lot by hand.

By: Arif

Arif — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:34:09 +0000

Hi Ritesh

I tried to import bibliography from ACM, but refmanager refused to import, I get an error to invalid URL.
Any suggestions

By: Tom Jacks

Tom Jacks — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:59:40 +0000

You sir are an absolute legend of a man.

Nuff respect due

Peace

By: v

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:19:46 +0000

Hello, Great feature. I would like to know if I can change the output styles and if I can add new styles.
Many thanks!!

By: ragrawal

ragrawal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:09:58 +0000

I just tried importing article from the pubmed link you provided and the add-on was able to import article without any problem. One thing, the add-on uses a web-service in order to import articles. So make sure that you are connected to the internet.

By: Cory

Cory — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:08:50 +0000

Not sure if you’re still supporting this add-on, but if you are I have a question with regards to importing citations from pubmed (pretty much all I use).

Ideally, I’d like to be able to import citations one at a time using the web address for the article in pubmed, but as of right now when I try to do this, I get one of two errors.

If I copy the whole address as it appears in the browser when I find an article on pubmed, It just times out. eg:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9211849?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=1

If I delete the ? and everything after it, which still references the article on pubmed, I get a “Unable to find Record ID” error message.

I know pubmed recently underwent a cosmetic update, not sure if that may have affected this add-ons functionality. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

By: ragrawal

ragrawal — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:28:45 +0000

Hi Chris,

This is because acm.portal uses short form for journal and conference name. Let me know if I am wrong. I will also make sure that I am not making any mistake.

By: Sebastian B

Sebastian B — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:21:10 +0000

Hi,
thank you for your plugin. I’m starting my thesis now and I’m sure I’ll save y lot of time with it.

I just found out, that http://www.worldcat.org is one of the biggest litarature catalogs in the world (1.4 billion entries). Would it be possible to integrate it into your plugin search or your “copy from website” funcionality.

THANKS A LOT MAN! Greetings from Germany
Sebastian

By: Emanuel

Emanuel — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:39:54 +0000

I had the same problem with the Memento tab not showing up (Reference Manager appeared as inactive in the list of COM-addins). Installing the Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies, and then uninstalling and reinstalling Reference Manager solved the problem.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:54:41 +0000

Hey,
Any thought about my previous message. Missing conference proceedings and journal names while importing into reference manager.
Looking forward for your reply.
Cheers…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:52:42 +0000

Thanks for the addin, works brilliantly saves me time from typing each and every reference in word manually.
Though, I have noticed that when importing using website option or the text option (Bibtex as well as others), the addin is not importing the information regarding the conference proceeding or journal name.
Please Help.
Cheers…

By: ragrawal

ragrawal — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:37:29 +0000

cool. Was the problem was missing Interop package.

By: Alv Marenco

Alv Marenco — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:07:44 +0000

Hello Ritesh,

A successful installation. It did work and now I have the Memento tab. I really appreciate it. I will give you any feedback if anything comes up after using it.

Great.

Thanks,

Alv

By: ragrawal

ragrawal — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:48:27 +0000

hi Alv,

Thanks for trying this package. Can you try installing interop package. you can get it from here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=59DAEBAA-BED4-4282-A28C-B864D8BFA513&displaylang=en

After installing this, uninstall memento. You can uninstall by going under control panel > install/uninstall program. And then again install memento.

Try this and let me know whether it works or not.

By: Alv Marenco

Alv Marenco — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:51:16 +0000

I tried to install the Add-in and unfortunately Word can not load the add-ins at startup. It seems to me that Word 2007 does not recognize the path as:
file///c:/whateverDir\RefereceManager.vsto is located.
I think that is where the problem is – Normally it would be:
c:\whateverDir\RefereceManager.vsto
Any suggestions? I was able to run setup flawlessly and do have the latest VSTO tool installed.

BTW, I have EndNote installed, any possble conflict from that end?

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:59:22 +0000

Thanks for the software it has saved lots of time. Importing ~200 references for a thesis.

I have been using import from text file. It works well except for non-english characters such as “ä”. The characters display properly in notepad when I copy the bibtex. They also display properly once pasted in the import box. But in the bibliography it shows as “Ã¤”. Im using manage sources to correct the entries one by one. Is there a workaround?

A feature recommendation: Add a button for import from clipboard. When using the import from text file feature I always copy and paste to the text box. Import from clipboard could automatically pull the info from the clipboard without having to click in the text box, click paste and hit ok. Not a big deal but it would save a few seconds.

A fix for some other posters: I was having trouble with the tab showing up. Installing the Interop package first solved the problem for me.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=59DAEBAA-BED4-4282-A28C-B864D8BFA513&displaylang=en

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:19:55 +0000

Thank you very much for releasing this software, it has been extremely useful in my thesis writing. Regards from a Brazilian in Finland.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:38:21 +0000

I m getting the following error: the underlying connection was closed.
I m getting that error in: “Import from text”

By: ragrawal

ragrawal — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:42:38 +0000

@pHi

you mean a rss feed within word, so you can select articles from it. I liked the idea. Meanwhile I am working on building a universal search engine that will be part of my tool. This search will take your search query adn look for related articles across different websites such as ingenta, blackwell, google scholar, hotwire..I am planning to release by next month.
Also I liked your idea and will try to roll out that feature too in my next release