# instruments to do a Ph.D.

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**Category:** Scrivener for macOS\
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**Created:** [November 21, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/instruments-to-do-a-ph-d/670 "2006-11-21T23:13:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/instruments-to-do-a-ph-d/670/4 "2007-02-06T17:49:48Z")

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Sorry to dredge up this old thread, and I know this topic has been touched upon in another [thread](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/sente-spotlight-integration/908/1), 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](http://www.macresearch.org/scrivener_word_processing_reinvented) at a site called MacResearch.

Of particular interest was this line:

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> If Scrivener supported inline citation management of some kind I think it would be a full-blown Word replacement (you can export to Word-friendly formats however), nonetheless I’m going to integrate it into my research work flow whenever possible.

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](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/sente-spotlight-integration/908/1) 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!

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