What's new in Biblioscape 6

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What's new in Biblioscape 6

Version 6.0

Biblioscape 6 doesn't have many changes in the user interface. But underneath, major improvements have been made to the core of the reference module. All major styles are now supported, including those used in soft science fields with footnotes or endnotes. Regular expression can now be used in import filters. This makes it possible for Biblioscape to handle any kind of tagged file with ease. Here are the main improvements in Biblioscape 6.

Styles and formatting

Documents with large graphics and OLE objects can now be handled for formatting.

Temporary citations can now be added to footnotes or endnotes when using styles that support notes style bibliographies.

In style editor, options were added to handle formatting and sorting anonymous works.

In style editor, end page can be formatted as a 2-digit number.

In style editor, a check box was added to remove periods in the journal name.

In style editor, ambiguous citations can now be handled in 4 different ways.

In style editor, subsequent works by the same authors can now be handled in both citations and bibliography.

In style editor, multiple citations can now be sorted in 5 different ways, so it is no longer necessary to do the sorting in the temporary citations.

In style editor, "title" field can now be formatted in 3 ways: as is, headline, and sentence.

In style editor, repeated citations in footnotes or endnotes is now supported.

In style editor, reference section layout can now be specified using indentation and spacing properties.

In style editor, authors list cutoff is now handled in a better way.

In style editor, "cited pages" field is added for formatting. Cited pages are not stored in the database, but added by authors inside temporary citations in footnotes or endnotes.

Two fields, "Favorite" and "Category", were added to the style table. Styles can be sorted or grouped by these two fields.

All major styles are now supported, including Chicago, MLA, APA, Turabian, ACS, CBE, Harvard, Vancouver, etc. Styles for citing inside footnotes or endnotes start with "*" in their names.

Import filters

Regular expressions can now be used in import filters to match tags in the import file. The regular expression string should be added inside RE(...)RE.

Two fields, "Favorite" and "Category", were added to the import filter table. Import filters can be sorted or grouped by these two fields.

Other

Subject bibliography support is added under "File | Print Bibliographies". Any field can be selected as the subject and any output style can be used to generate the formatted list. Both subject and the number of counts can be used to sort references in ascending or descending order.

Regular expressions are also added to the "Edit | Find" and "Edit | Replace" window. When the box "Regular Expression" is checked, the text in the "Find" box is treated as a regular expression pattern.

Better support for international users. Now switching to another language is as easy as going to the "Tools | Options" window and changing two settings on the "Format Manuscript" tab. All major languages are supported including all European languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.