For the second of the two seminars on Systematic Literature Review, here the tools useful for SLR are presented. The seminar is meant for PhD students and was given at the Computer Science PhD Program at the University of Salerno, Italy

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2 - Systematic literature reviews:
Bibliographic Tools
Vittorio Scarano
Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit`a di Salerno (Italy)
vitsca@unisa.it
PhD in Computer Science,
University of Salerno (Italy)
January 14th, 2020

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LESSON PLAN
1 LaTeX and BibTeX
2 Sources of information
3 Tools for Bibliographies
4 Tools for Systematic Literature Reviews
5 Conclusions and comments

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LATEX
• LaTeX was originally written in the early 1980s by Leslie Lamport at
SRI International
• LaTeX is a document preparation system: it uses plain text as opposed
to the WYSIWYG (”what you see is what you get”)
• Markup tagging conventions to define the general structure of a
document
• Distributions such as TeX Live or MikTeX are used to produce an
output file (such as PDF or DVI) suitable for printing or digital
distribution.
• LaTeX is widely used in academia for the communication and
publication of scientific documents in many fields
• LaTeX can be used as a standalone document preparation system, or
as an intermediate format: sometimes is part of a pipeline for
translating from other formats (XML-based formats) to PDF

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BIBTEX
• Reference management software for formatting lists of references.
• Used together with the LaTeX document preparation system.
• Facilitate the citation of sources in a consistent manner, by separating
bibliographic information from the presentation of this information,
• similarly to the separation of content and presentation/style supported
by LaTeX

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FILES INVOLVED
• BibTeX chooses from the .bib file(s) only those entries specified by the
.aux file (that is, those given by LaTeX’s cite or nocite
commands),
• It then creates as output a .bbl file containing these entries together
with the formatting commands specified by the .bst file.
• LaTeX will use the .bbl file (possibly edited) to produce the reference
list.

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BIBTEX ENTRY

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MAIN INFORMATION SOURCES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
• ACM digital library dl.acm.org
• IEEE Xplore,
• ISI web of knowledge,
• ScienceDirect,
• CiteSeer,
• SpringerLink
• DBLP
• Wiley Inter Science

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MANY TOOLS AVAILABLE FOR BIBTEX/LATEX
• Jabref
• Zotero
• Mendeley
• Endnote
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JABREF
• JabRef is a reference management software that uses BibTeX and
BibLaTeX as its native formats and is therefore typically used for
LaTeX.
• The original version of JabRef was released on November 29, 2003.
• It provides an interface for editing BibTeX files, for importing data
from online scientific databases, and for managing and searching
BibTeX files.
• Released under the terms of MIT license since version 3.6 (and was
under the GPL license before).
• Cross-platform
• www.jabref.org

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JABREF FEATURES
• Search the Web: arXiv, CiteseerX, Google Scholar, Medline, GVK,
IEEEXplore, ACM DL and Springer and others
• Import formats: RIS, Medline/Pubmed (xml), Refer/Endnote, INSPEC,
BibTeXML, CSA, ISI Web of Science, SilverPlatter, Scifinder, OVID,
Biblioscape, Sixpack, JStor, and RIS.
• Export formats: HTML, Docbook, BibTeXML, MODS, RTF, Refer/Endnote,
and OpenOffice.org as well as LibreOffice
• Automatic download of full texts: search for the full text of a reference,
download it, and directly link it to the BibTeX entry.
• Search the bibliography by a pattern
• Classification of entries: group entries explicitly, by keywords or any other
fields, and also rank them
• Integrates to your environment: PDF viewers, web browser
• Insert citations into TeXstudio, LyX, Kile, Emacs, TeXmaker, Vim, and
WinEdt
• Automatic Key generation
• Support for XMP Metadata in PDFs
• Customization of BibTeX fields

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ZOTERO
• Jabref works on local files: useful for several different bibliographies
• Some glitches, but constantly improving
• Zotero www.zotero.org is an alternative: besides local version, it is
also web-based
• Zotero allows
• organization in collections
• tagging
• Rich annotation system, with files attached
• Zotero connectors with Chrome, Firefox, Safari
• Easy add wizard by using Digital Object Identifier (doi)
• Also integrated in Word and Libreoffice
• Collaboration with other users
• Freemium model: up to 300Mb shared for free, 2Gb for 20$/year, 6GB
for 60$/year, unlimited for $120/year

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ZOTERO

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SLR-TOOLKIT
• Many tools
• “Supporting Systematic Literature Reviews in Computer Science The
Systematic Literature Review Toolkit” by Sebastian G¨otz (2018)
• Manages bibtex collections and allow to build a taxonomy
• Classification of entries with the taxonomy
• Automatic creation of charts (bar, bubble, pie)
• Import from Google Scholar and others
• Support and synch with Mendeley
• Open source on Github at
github.com/sebastiangoetz/slr-toolkit

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SLR-TOOLKIT 1

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SLR-TOOLKIT 2
Video at https://youtu.be/IB4d9CJt144

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PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS
• Important to follow a process when documenting literature surveys
• Useful tools and instruments can facilitate the effort: learn to use it as
a hammer for a carpenter
• Activity on building intelligent tools for SLR (see the bibliographic
notes for more info)

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READING MATERIAL AND CREDITS
• Material and references available at www.isislab.it under “Research”
• Slides are available on Slideshare under Open licence Common
Creative - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? ANYTHING?