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Tips to work efficiently with CiteSmart

There are 5 rules to keep in mind:

  1. Keep one word document open
  2. Use the "Start Woking Space" feature
  3. Light use of CiteSmart main window
  4. Avoid updating the bibliographic index all the time
  5. Organize your libraries

CiteSmart has been designed to help you cope with the necessary and often time consuming bibliographic work. CiteSmart introduces new ways and uses. Here are some general consideration that may help you use CiteSmart in the most profitable way:

1- Try to keep few open documents at a time. Switching between different programs is time consuming. With CiteSmart you shouldn't have to switch between programs while writing.

2- Use the "Start Working Space" function. To do so right click on the CiteSmart Taskbar Icon and click "Start Working Space". Alternatively you can go to menu Toolbox>Start Working Space.

This starts Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer (IE) and split the screen in two equal parts, with the active Word document on one half and IE on the other half. From there you can literally write your manuscript, search & cite from PubMed website with 1 click.

3- Using CiteSmart main window. CiteSmart has been thought so that you don't have to use it, only for specific functions like changing or creating a style. The CiteClik and RefClick options, combined with the Word Toolbar makes a package that allow you to, create your library, cite and format your references WITHOUT HAVING TO USE CiteSmart! There is no better software program that the one that you don't use and yet that will do what you need.

4- Avoid updating the bibliographic index all the time. It is not necessary. Do it few times to make sure the style is in accordance with the publisher/editor requirements.

5- Organize your libraries. The current way of working is to build big libraries. It is so time consuming to add a reference with other programs, that one tries to capitalize on this and keep all the references in a single big library. This makes it time consuming to search the library again. CiteSmart provides the CiteClik and RefClick options and builds the library for you, It will be almost easier to search Medline and cite than to search your own library! You can create one library for each paper or you can still keep one single big library and use labels to efficiently organize your references!