Dear group, For current and future paper-writing and grant-writing endeavors, the group needs to unify in a way of handling references in papers. Many of you have been using LaTeX's \begin{thebilbiography}\end{thebibliography} method rather than BibTex. This has made me go through many pains every time I end up writing a grant, and it will make you all go through pains whenever you are writing a paper that requires to re-use the bibliography used in another paper by our own group. Simple things like adding titles have made some members of the group spend full afternoons tinkering with your bibliographies in LaTeX. With the help of Shuting, we are adding many of our past \begin{thebibliography}\end{thebibliography} to the Connotea/Bibtex world, but this is a one-time effort, and I will expect of all of you to add all the references (with full bibliographic information) of your papers to Connotea, and then further export a Bibtex file from Connotea for the use in the paper. These bibtex files will have to be in assembla.com in the file associated with your paper, for future re-use by group members and especially myself. I will add a Wiki page with brief instructions right now, and please ask questions in the mailing list if it is not clear. I would say that half of the group members are using bibtex, half are using the impractical \begin{thebilbiography}\end{thebibliography} method, and nobody is finally adding everthing to connotea so we have a universal bibtex database. If your paper is "finished", or "submitted", leave it as it is, but any paper in the works or not submitted yet, is expected to follow this procedure. I started a Howto document in the WIKI. Please help me enrich it, so we are all in the same page. https://www2.lsdiv.harvard.edu/aspuru/wiki/index.php/Writing_a_paper_using_… Cheers to all, Alan -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu