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Annotating the bibliography
Where a publication abstract is a purely descriptive summary of a publication, a annotation can be both descriptive and critical. Annotations are commonly used to:
- place a publication in a context
- describe the relevance of a publication
- summarize the strengths and weaknesses of a publication
Aigaion offers the 'note' facility to create annotations. An annotation might look like the following example:
Referencing other publications
You can reference to other publications by simply using the publications BibTeX cite ID. On displaying the note, the cite ID will be replaced by a link to the corresponding publication.
Formatting annotations
To improve the readability of annotations it is recommended to keep annotations short and to the point. Standard HTML formatting tags can be used to format an annotation. The most common tags are listed here: