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When working on a big academic writing project, you may have hundreds or even thousands of references and notes. When the number of records grow over a certain point, you need to organize your collection for easy retrieval. Biblioscape includes an easy to use tagging tool for both references and notes. In this example project "Apes and Language", we will organize references and notes by 4 categories: "spontaneity", "creativity", "sentence creation", and "implication". These are the 4 sections of the sample paper. For a big project, you will have many more categories. You can also organize categories in a tree structure.
| 1. | Click the "Categories" folder in the project panel. |
| 2. | In the categories module, click the "Quick Add" button. In the Quick Add box, enter "spontaneity" and press the Enter key. The new category will be added to the categories folder. Type the other 3 categories followed by the Enter key.
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| 3. | All 4 categories are now added to the categories folder. You can use them to tag your references and notes.
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| 4. | Now, lets go to the "References" folder. In the search panel on the right, click the "Categories" tab. At the top, select the "Categories" folder to open it. All 4 category items we added to that folder will be listed. |
| 5. | Next, we will tag some references using the categories we added. Select the references that are about apes using language spontaneously, and drag and drop these references into the category "spontaneity" in the categories tab. Biblioscape will tag those selected references with the category "spontaneity".
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| 6. | Click on the category "spontaneity" in the categories tab. Biblioscape will automatically retrieve all those references that are tagged by the category "spontaneity".
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| 7. | You can organize notes by categories in the same way. |
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