Citations and Bibliography
Citations
Inkwell offers citation functionality. It can format your citations according to a wide variety of styles and build out your bibliography. Citation information can be entered automatically, fetched from external databases, or pulled from your citation manager.
To insert a citation, place your cursor after the text the citation will refer to, then click on the Insert Citation button 
in the menu bar.
A pop-up appears.
Search for citations by:
- DOI
- Web address
- Search terms
If you enter search terms, Inkwell will search the database from your citation manager or Semantic Scholar. For best result, we recommend integrating with a citation manager. We support both Zotero and Mendeley. If you do not have an account with either provider, click on the Zotero and Mendeley links to sign up for the appropriate account. Once you have the account, click the appropriate link button.
If you click the Zotero button a new window will open, requesting that you create a New Private Key. Inkwell will show in the Description box. Click the Accept Defaults link.
If you click the Mendeley button, you will be prompted to sign into your Mendeley or Elsevier account. Once you have signed it, you will be redirected back to Inkwell. Once you see the success message, close the window and return to your document.
To insert a citation from Semanatic Scholar or your citation database, simply search for the paper:
Click the desired paper, the save button, or push enter to insert the citation into your document.
If the resource that you want to cite is unavailable from any of your sources, you can insert it manually using the “Manual Citation” button.
The citation will be inserted as a footnote in the editor. For citation styles that do not call for the use of footnotes, it will still be shown as a footnote in the editor, but not in the preview and output. To see the details of the citation click on the footnote number.
In order to modify the details of a citation, click the “Edit Citation” button: 
. There is a blank space between the citation text and the period. This is to enter in a specific location in the book, such as a page number.
Once a citation manager is linked, Inkwell says Currently integrated with… in the citation dialog, and a Disconnect button lets you unlink it again. The library is refreshed in the background while you work, so citations you add in Zotero or Mendeley become available without reloading Inkwell.
Citation style
The style used for both citations and the bibliography is set under Project Settings → Citations:
- Citation Style — pick from the CSL styles. Changing it re-formats every citation and the whole bibliography at once.
- Condense Subsequent Citations — after a work's first full citation, use the shortened form for later references to it.
Bibliography
Add a bibliography with Insert → Bibliography in the chapter list. It collects every citation in the project automatically and keeps itself up to date.
The bibliography page also gives you per-entry controls:
- Edit Citation — correct or complete an entry's details.
- Replace Citation — re-source the entry from your citation manager or Semantic Scholar, which is the fix when an automatically fetched record turns out to be wrong.
- A link out to the entry's original source, when it has one.
Project settings for bibliography formatting
The appearance of bibliography entries is a paragraph style:
- Click the Project Settings button
- Click Paragraphs
- Click Bibliography Entry
A hanging indent, set here, is what most styles expect.
Entering a Manual Citation
To insert a citation, place your cursor after the text the citation will refer to, then click on the Insert Citation button in the menu bar.
Click the Manual Citation button in the pop-up.
A citation entry screen will pop up. Click the dropdown next to Type to choose the correct entry type.
Complete all necessary fields for your entry, then click the Save button in the bottom right corner of the pop-up.
