3 Tools To Help With Writing Scientific Papers
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You are finally ready to start writing your first scientific paper, maybe for a journal or conference. But you don’t know where to start. You have heard of LaTeX, BibTex, Citations and nothing is really adding up. You just need easy and uncomplicated tools to work with. Learning about the new tools should not be more difficult than writing the paper itself! I am discussing a few tools and websites here, for beginners.
Wikipedia prescribes LaTeX as a document preparation system; the official website states it as a typesetting system. I would describe LaTeX as a system for preparing documents where fine-grained pixel-by-pixel perfection is a reality. The leading conferences or journals provide their template in LaTeX, and often in word-processor formats. Personally, I have found word processor behavior to be quite unreliable and prefer LaTeX for it’s ease and simplicity. A quick search on your favorite search engine might (and probably will) more reasons to use LaTeX.
BibTex is a markup format for bibliography generation. It is used a lot in par with LaTeX for generating citations according to the required styling.

ShareLaTeX is a website similar to Google Docs, for LaTeX. It allows collaborative editing, history tracking and free hosting online. It also helps out by providing a plethora of templates to choose from; including templates from well-reputed journals or conferences. You will not need to install anything other than a modern web browser on your computer for using ShareLaTex, everything is done online. As per expectation, it can preview and export as PDF.

CiteThisForMe is a great website for managing your bibliography. You can generate citations for books, websites, journal articles and more. By the way, citations are the references you make to content your paper “borrows ideas from”. A variety of export styles are supported, including Harvard, MLA, Vancoover et cetera or the generic BibTex.

This extension lets you search for any piece of text on Google Scholar. Also lets you discover papers, generate citations all without leaving your current tabs. I find it extremely handy for generating quick citations and searching for referenced papers while reading.
I am planning to write down a very basic tutorial on LaTeX syntax sometimes in the near future. Please let me know in the comments if you are interested.