How Do I Add A Paperpile Citation To Google Doc?

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To utilize Paperpile you need an Internet connection, Google Chrome, and a Google account. Since student/personal use accounts do not crave a dot edu electronic mail, I recommend using your Google Apps @ Illinois account for this because y'all can fully utilize and enjoy unlimited gratuitous storage from Google to store your PDFs. Paperpile offers one calendar month free; subsequently, it's $36 for the twelvemonth. You can download the extension for Chrome hither. If you lot already use Mendeley or Zotero y'all can import all of your files and data from these programs to Paperpile. In gild to use Paperpile, you will need the app on each version of Chrome you employ. It should sync as role of your Chrome extensions, and y'all can install it on Chrome on University Library computers likewise.

You lot can import PDFs and metadata by clicking on the Paperpile logo on Chrome.

Paperpile import tool located just right of the search bar in Chrome

On your primary page you can create folders, tag items, and more! Yous tin can too search for new manufactures in the app itself.

Paperpile Main Menu

If you didn't import enough information about a source or it didn't import the right data yous can easily add more details by clicking the check marking side by side to the document in the menu and clicking edit on the summit menu next to the search box for your papers.

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Plus, from the master folio, when yous click "View PDF" you can besides use the beta annotations characteristic past clicking the pen icon. This feature lets you lot highlight and comment on your PDF and information technology saves the highlighted text and comments in social club past page in notes. It can then be exported every bit plain text or as very pretty printouts. It is rectangle-based highlighting and can be a little fleck annoying, specially when highlighting doesn't ever covered the text that was copied. Like a highlighter in real life yous cannot keep to highlight onto the next page.

Highlighted and copied sentence split by page boundary

When you leave the app, the highlighting is saved on the PDF in your Google Drive and y'all can your highlights on the PDF wherever you use Google Bulldoze. The copied text and comments tin can be exported into a very pretty printout or a variety of plaintext file formats.

Print screen of exported annotated notes on Paperpile — Non the prettiest example simply you get the thought.

Once you lot get to actually writing your paper you can add together citations to your paper in Google docs by clicking the Paperpile tab on your Google doc. Y'all can search your library or the spider web for a specific article. Click format citations and follow the instructions for how to download the improver for Google docs.

Paperpile cite while you write in Google Docs

I didn't try it but there's a Google Docs sidebar so that anyone can add references, regardless of whether or not they are a Paperpile user, to a Google Physician. I imagine this is great for those group projects where the "grouping" is non but the person who cares the most.

Troubleshooting

Paperpile includes a support conversation box, which is located on your main folio, and is very useful for troubleshooting. For example, i problem I ran into with Paperpile is that you cannot change the page number to match what it actually is in the article and folio number is based on the PDF file in the notes feature. I messaged and I got a response with a professional tone inside twenty-four hours. Turns out, they are working on this problem and somewhen PDFs will exist numbered by bodily folio number, only they can't say when they will take information technology fixed.

For other problems, there is an official help page with a lot of instructions about using the software and answers to frequently asked questions. There is likewise a blog and a forum which is peculiarly dainty considering you can see if other people are experiencing the aforementioned problem and what the company plans to do about it.

Scholarly Commons runs a variety of Savvy Researcher workshops throughout the year including personal data management and commendation managers. And allow u.s.a. know in the comments almost your favorite commendation/reference management software and your way of keeping your research organized!

And for the curious, the examples in this post are based from the undergraduate inquiry drove in IDEALS. Specifically:

Kountz, Erik. 2013. "Cascades of Cacophony." Equinox Literary and Arts Magazine. http://hdl.handle.internet/2142/89474.

Liao, Ethel. 2013. "Nutella, Dear Nutella." Equinox Literary and Arts Magazine. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89476.

Montesinos, Gary. 2015. "The Invisible (S)elf: Identity in House Elves and Harry Potter." Re:Search: The Undergraduate Literary Criticism Journal 2 (1). http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78004.