The ref IDs could be looked up from a dump of the Paperpile reference database to a RIS/Bibtex or tabular file, which is essentially how I write in Latex (with Bibtex file from Paperpile) when I am offline. Here users could write on their paper in Google Docs offline mode and add citations manually by ref IDs in this or a similar unformatted style.

Also this or a similar workaround could provide partial support for offline writing with Paperpile (discussed in another thread). This would be extremely useful for the time being since Word (Office Online) support is not available yet. Please also note, if these placeholders could also be used to format a Google Docs, then we could import Word/Endnote documents into Google Docs which would get you very close to a full Word/Endnote interchange feature in Paperpile. Essentially one would output two files: the RIS file which works already PLUS a Word file with the citations in unformatted EndNote style. When it comes to finalizing papers and grant applications every team of authors will switch to the writing tool the weakest link in the team is able to handle rather than the one they should be using as there is never an excuse for missing a deadline.Įxactly. Expecting and/or teaching every colleague to switch to GDocs works only in some collaborations. Perhaps this could be handled simply by introducing a special citation style that mimics the unformatted Endnote style? - I have found myself in many collaborative writing situations where this would have been extremely useful. This way MS Word/Endnote users (vast majority of authors in academia) can continue to work with GDocs/Paperpile documents using MS Word/Endnote without re-associating every citation manually with their reference manager. In this context, the following MS Word support utility, which I brought up before in a private support request, would help a lot already:Ī simple option to format/export the google docs text with citations in the unformated Endnote style (curly braces with the reference ID in Endnote style).

Word online