Sorry to dredge up this old thread, and I know this topic has been touched upon in another thread, but this seemed most appropriate here.
In addition to impressing the productivity and fiction writing folks, Scrivener is (deservedly) garnering attention from the academic circles. I just came across this nice little write-up at a site called MacResearch.
Of particular interest was this line:
Now, I don’t know if Scrivener will ever be able to fully support inline citation management (and I freely admit to not having a clue how difficult it would be), but it certainly seems that there is a potentially large market for an academic writing tool with the flexibilty that Scrivener offers. It would seem that the only thing lacking right now is the ability to manage in-text citations.
As has been mentioned in the other thread on this topic, BibDesk and BookEnds potentially work (or almost work) with Scrivener, and the Sente folks are promising RTF scanning in their 5.0 release (not currently possible with 4.x).
I look forward to the day when I can do all my academic writing in Scrivener!