![]() Right click this link and use the “Save target as” or “Save Link as” option. This can be found on Mike Brookes’ site here. If you prefer not to see your system and hidden folders you can reverse this once complete. Tools>Folder Options>Hidden files and folders>Show hidden files and folders & Display the contents of system folders. Remember each entry on the path should be seperated by semi-colons for example my path is:-ĭ:\WINDOWS\system32 D:\WINDOWS D:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5\miktex\bin īy defaut on your machine you may have to make your Word startup folder visible, you can do this by going to Windows Explorer and selecting:. If you are having problems use the Windows search feature to look for “Bibtex.exe”. Yours should be similar if you followed the default installation. Here you need to edit the “Path” entry by adding the path of the BibTeX executable, failure to do so will cause an “Error 53” The path to my BibTeX executable is Start>Settings>Control Panel> System>Advanced>Enviromental Variables>System Variables ![]() The macro requires that it can access the BibTeX package from the default path. My Bibliography file is called “bib.bib” and was located in “My Documents” which contains a space so I relocated it to a new folder “c:\References\bib.bib” Make a note of your location. ![]() Unfortunately BibTeX does not support filenames with spaces in them, if you have spaces in your path to your JabRef file you must relocate your data file to a directory without. The link to MikTeX is here (and will open in a new window) You need to download and install the basic version, don’t worry about installing all the packages, you don’t need them. MiKTex is a LaTeX typesetting environment, you don’t need to be too concerned about the details of this, essentially MiKTeX contains BibTeX the ‘engine’ that is used for to generate the different referencing styles that you will now be able to call on to be able to submit to various journals eg. I will cover how to use JabRef in a forthcoming guide. If you wish you can download JabRef from here. These instructions assume that you are already familiar with JabRef and have a copy installed on your computer. The newest version can be found here on Mike Brookes’ site, along with excellent documentation. This post is for an old version of the BibTeX4Word Macro. In this guide I will show you step-by-step how to install Mike Brookes‘ excellent free Bibtex4Word (v1.12) Word Macro Package on your Windows XP machine. Unfortunately most users are not aware that JabRef (or any other BibTeX based reference manager) can easily be integrated for use with Microsoft Word. ![]() JabRef is one of the best reference managers available and provides a realistic alternative to Endnote, as well as being open-source & free.
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