Citing with Papers

Troubleshooting: Inline References Not in Correct Style / Order (Google Docs)
We currently have a temporary issue that is affecting some users using SmartCite for Google Docs.  Affected users will notice when they "UPDATE BIBLIO...
Thu, 23 Jul, 2020 at 12:24 PM
Troubleshooting: Citation Style is Incorrect
ReadCube Papers supports the Citation Style Language (CSL) project who maintains a crowdsourced repository with over 9000 free CSL citation styles. If you s...
Thu, 23 Jul, 2020 at 12:27 PM
Troubleshooting: Error message: "We can't load this add-in because we couldn't connect to the catalog"
This error means that your local Word instance cannot reach the Microsoft app catalog to get the add-in details. Basically, your local machine cannot "...
Mon, 20 Jul, 2020 at 4:06 PM
SmartCite for Word Online is blocked by a message
Due to an update your documents will need to be converted. If your document needs this conversion we will show you some text and block you from ruining your...
Tue, 4 Aug, 2020 at 6:52 PM
Troubleshooting: Metadata Error Detected
While using SmartCite you may come across one of your citations having the following error: METADATA ERROR DETECTED. This can be for a number of reasons but...
Sat, 1 May, 2021 at 5:47 PM
Converting from EndNote
All of your old papers in EndNote? Thinking SmartCite looks really cool but don't want to start over? We now have the ability to convert EndNote Citatio...
Mon, 1 Feb, 2021 at 10:17 AM
Listing/Citing Organization as Authors
Save Organizations as authors by going to your "Edit Metadata" panel (second icon at top of right panel in the library) and simply adding a "...
Tue, 5 Jul, 2022 at 2:24 PM
Adding Footnotes with Papers
While SmartCite does not support footnotes at this time (only endnotes are supported - ie. inline citations and bibliography/reference list at end of docume...
Sun, 23 Jan, 2022 at 11:58 AM
Papers CSL Types & Fields
Papers supports the CSL (Citation Style Language) format when generating bibliographies and inline references.  If you are modifying or developing a CSL sty...
Tue, 9 Aug, 2022 at 11:15 AM
Authors with multi-text names
If you are citing with an author who's first or surname is multi-text such as John David or De Santos using SmartCite the  add-in will only recognize th...
Mon, 24 Oct, 2022 at 3:48 PM