Introduction

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This post contains our solution to the management of references for the following purposes:

Writing paper.
When you are writing paper with Latex, the best solution for the references is to use Bibtex. A quick introduction and usage of Bibdesk is HERE and a more detailed one can be found HERE.

Managing paper.
We use some graphical softwares to manage BibTex databases. For Windows and Unix: JabRef and for Mac: BibDesk.
It is easy to classify, search and edit bib files using those softwares. HERE is a sample page which contains html files generated by BibDesk.

Reading paper.
What we do for this purpose is a small, local, and specialized version of MathSciNet. Most papers in the BibTex database is linked to a pdf file in your local machine or some web sever. A webpage for our current library is HERE (account and password is needed).