Open a reference
Find the reference in the reference list, and then do one of the followings to open the record.
- Double-click the selected reference.
- Press Enter.
- Choose Open ( (Ctrl+O) from the References menu.
Make necessary changes and click button "Save and Close" to save changes and go back to the reference list. When you are in reference list, the selected reference can be displayed in the preview panel. You can set the preview mode to "live" by going to menu command "View | Preview Pane | Live Preview". Under this mode, the text of reference fields can be edited. When you move to another reference in the list, the changes you made will be saved to the database.
Close a reference
To close a reference in reference editor window, you can do one of the following:
- Save and close: Go to menu command "File | Save and Close" (Alt+F4 or Alt+S) to save the changes and close the current reference window.
- Cancel and close: Go to menu command "File | Cancel" (Esc) to cancel the changes made to current record and close the window.
- Save and new: Go to menu command "File | Save and New" (Ctrl+N) to save the changes and create a blank new record in current window.
- Save and next: Click the toolbar button Next or Prior to save the changes of current record and open the next record in the same window.
Delete references
Select the references you want to delete from the references list, and click menu command "References | Delete" (Ctrl+D) to delete the selection. Biblioscape does not prompt you before deletion. Because the deleted records are put into the recycle bin instead of being permanently removed from your database. You can always recover the deleted references from the Recycle bin later. Once restored from Recycle bin, the references still hold the same Reference ID as the original records. So it will not cause problem if that Reference ID is used in a temporary citation in your manuscript.
References will be permanently deleted from your database only when you remove them from the Recycle bin.