I am completing a non-fiction book with lots of references using Scrivener. I wonder if there is a relatively efficient way to complete a consistency check (references cited in text against references listed in the bibliography) with Scrivener. If not, is there another preferred software that can handle this task? TIA. John
How are your references accomplished in the text itself? Did you use inspector footnotes to insert them? If so you could select all of them in the inspector (use Scrivenings mode on the entire Draft to do so) and then copy and paste them into a new text document. You could then go down the list against the bibliography and make sure everything is mentioned. There isn’t anything automatic for this though.
For future reference, you might look into getting a bibliography and citation manager like Bookends or Sente for organising this stuff. You can insert the citation into Scrivener as a human readable placeholder, and then Bookends would format the citations according to the style guide you need, and assemble a bibliography from them automatically. Not only is that part easier, but the software itself is a database of all the sources you use, so it makes things a lot easier in general.
Thanks for the reply. I did not use inspector footnotes to insert citations in the text but will remember that for next time. Best, John.