# How do you organise scientific papers?

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**Created:** [September 4, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-you-organise-scientific-papers/28364 "2019-09-04T09:19:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![chakravala](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chakravala/32/6832_2.png) [@chakravala](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chakravala)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-you-organise-scientific-papers/28364/25 "2019-09-04T18:59:02Z")

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I no longer digitally organize papers, I have a laser printer and print out whatever I find important. In the past I experimented with Jabref and other tools, but none of them satisfy me. Someday I want to make my own tool based on [VerTeX.jl](https://github.com/chakravala/VerTeX.jl) for references, as I discussed before

> [@Replacing CITATION.bib with a standard metadata format](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/replacing-citation-bib-with-a-standard-metadata-format/26871):
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> Many Julia packages are starting to use a CITATION.bib file containing bibTeX citations for the package, as suggested on the [Julia Research](https://julialang.org/research/) page. I think it is a mistake to use a Julia-specific format here — providing code metadata is not a Julia-specific problem, and there is a huge community interested in promoting better metadata formats. BibTeX is very convenient for those of us in mathematical sciences where LaTeX is popular, but it is pretty inconvenient outside of a TeX environment (e.g…

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