Howto integrate 'Footnotes' and bibliographic References with your texts

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:36:56 +0000

If you are used to complex text editing programs such as MS Word or Open Office, you will probably enjoy the Footnote and Biblio functions. In your text in a book page (but also other content types such as Research Journal or 'story'), you can us the fn tag <fn>and what you write in between the tags will appear as an automatically numbered footnote, but don't forget the end tag </fn>

Almost analogue to that works the bib tag. If you want to refer from within your text to a bibliographic reference, use

Howto create structured research documents with 'Books'

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:34:06 +0000

A 'book' in Drupalish, the Drupal slang, is a content type which allows you to create static pages which are linked to each other through a hierarchical navigation system. On a book page you can use all the things that you can use in a Research Journal Entry (which is called 'blog' page in Drupalish). The content type book is useful for longer texts where you want to split content into different pages. As the navigation control is created by Drupal, this comes in very handy.

The Next Layer - biblio

Howto integrate 'Footnotes' and bibliographic References with your texts

Howto create structured research documents with 'Books'