Scrivener Tutorial 2: Bibliography

In our second Scrivener tutorial I will show how to keep a bibliography along with your Scrivener file. I’m describing how MultiMarkdown needs bibliography entries to be formatted in order to reformat them when the file is being exported as a LaTeX document. The bibliography itself will be organized by BibDesk.

MultiMarkdown Bibliography Syntax

To create a citation using MMD use the following syntax:

[name][#citeKey]

Everything inside the first pair of square brackets will be readable in the text, without the brackets, of course. In the second pair of square brackets a unique citation key needs to be put. That unique key needs to be kept in a .bib file, using BibDesk.
Last but not least, the .bib needs to be referenced from Scrivener. Define in the MultiMarkdown Settings in Scrivener a new key named “BibTeX”. Write the relative path to the bibliography file in the right textfield and click OK. Now “Compile Draft” as usual.

5 Responses to “Scrivener Tutorial 2: Bibliography”

1. Claus says:

   12-02-2010 at 12:50 pm

   Hi, great tutorial. Do you know where the MMD settings moved in Scrivener2? I can’t see them anymore under File–MultiMarkdown settings, and can’t find them elsewhere. Thanks, Claus
2. Claus says:

   12-02-2010 at 09:06 pm

   Hi again, I found it, it’s now directly one filed in the compile draft options. I agree with you, this is a huge feature. Is fletcherpenney.net not available anymore, or is it just me who has problems accessing it? Cheers, Claus
3. Zettt says:

   12-03-2010 at 11:39 am

   Hey Claus,
   Sorry I didn’t see your post earlier. You can always check whether a website is reachable using downforeveryoneorjustme.
   In Scrivener 2 the MMD settings moved to the Compile Draft menu. Select MultiMarkdown as destination format and a new menu entry will appear.

   Next time it might be easier (and quicker) to take a look at the documentation or write literatureandlatte’s official support an email.

   Cheers, Andreas
4. Kim says:

   04-08-2011 at 06:39 pm

   Hi. I have a question. I have followed the tutorials but I have no “Multimarkdown settings” option in the file dropdown menu. I have installed Multimarkdown, TextMate, MacTex. Any thoughts as to what I have missed? Thanks
5. Kim says:

   04-08-2011 at 06:46 pm

   Still can’t figure out how to get to Multimarkdown meta-data settings for the bibliography part of the tutorial.