While this combination works beautifully for technical manuscripts, it’s often easier or required to use Word instead of Latex in a mixed collaborative environment with colleagues of various professional backgrounds.
Therefore, my citations have been all collected in a Bibtex (.bib) file and are managed with JabRef. Therefore, an important element of any scientific text are citations of previous publications.Īs an engineer, I have been writing my documentation in Latex. So, what we usually do to create something new is to combine our own thoughts with what was previously discovered and published by others. However, it would be stupid and infeasible to start from scratch in every research project. The goal of any research is to extend the knowledge about something.
