Fedora Linux for AssistingResearch Writing

Muhammad Najmi bin Ahmad Zabidi

FedoraKnowledge Sharing

UCTInajmi.zabidi@ieee.org

10th September 2011

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

Agenda

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

About

1 Working as a lecturer in Dept of Computer Science, IIUM

2 Currently doing my PhD in malware detection

3 Need to read and write a lot :)

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

Important stuffs on writing

1 Read selective stuffs

2 Read broad subjects first, before deciding to be firm on certaintopic

3 Paper skimming skills is needed

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

Keeping citations

1 In research world, what you write based on other peopleliteratures, must be cited properly

2 Otherwise you’ll be trapped into plagiarism

3 How to cite properly will be in the other seminar :)

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

Styles in paper writing

1 There several formats in citations, to name a few;IEEEAPA

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

The Cycle

Basically, the whole process could be summarized as:

Reading

Write some notes

Find the reference file

Cite them in your article

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

Software for citations

There are quite a number of citation handles. The most notable ones;

EndNote (commercial)

BibTEX based software (JabRef), KBibTEX

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

In Fedora Linux world. . .

I would suggest. . .

JabRef - for handling citations or perhaps, if you happy,useKBibTEX

Kile (KDE based) LATEX editor

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

Figure 1: Jabref

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

Figure 2: KBibTEX

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

Figure 3: Kile

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

Installing

KBibTEX

Kile

is a simple as

sudo yum install kbibtex kile -y

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

However for JabRef, you need to download the JAR file (Java based)from http://jabref.sourceforge.net

MUHAMMAD NAJMI Fedora Linux for Assisting Research Writing

To simplify called this JabRef JAR file, instead of calling

java -jar jabref<version-number>

Simply create desktop entry shortcut ... name it jabref.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Name=Jabref

GenericName=Jabref

Exec=java -jar /home/najmi/JabRef-2.7.jar

Icon=jabref

Terminal=false

Type=Application

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