Hi,
I’m using Paperpile with Google doc. For some grant applications, I need to show some citations in bold font. Example:
This innovative coil enhances imaging capabilities in the cervical spine region [23], enabling higher-resolution and more sensitive imaging at ultra-high fields. Additionally, we recently published a paper on RF shimming in the spinal cord at 7T [34, 66], demonstrating improved Tx field homogeneity and signal quality in spinal cord imaging.
However, when running Paperpile > Format citations, the formatting disappears:
This innovative coil enhances imaging capabilities in the cervical spine region [23], enabling higher-resolution and more sensitive imaging at ultra-high fields. Additionally, we recently published a paper on RF shimming in the spinal cord at 7T [34, 66], demonstrating improved Tx field homogeneity and signal quality in spinal cord imaging.
Is there a way to prevent that?
Thanks,
Julien
Thanks for reaching out here, @Julien_Cohen-Adad. The format of the in-text citations in your document is set by the rules of your chosen citation style. We get our citation styles from online repository CSL, and you can customize citation styles with the CSL online editor available at editor.citationstyles.org.
The solution in your case would be to customize the citation style to embolden the in-text citations, and upload that custom style to Paperpile via your profile picture in the top right corner > Settings > Citation styles, where it will be available to use in Google Docs.
Thank you for the response @suzanne, but just to make sure, before I invest time in the solution: will your suggestion enable to embolden (and keep as bold even after formatting) only specific citations? It seems, from what I understand from your explanation, that all citations would be embolden, which is not what I want.
Cheers,
Julien
My understanding is it would embolden all in-text citations, @Julien_Cohen-Adad. If that is not what you need, my suggestion would be just to use your preferred citation style, but to only embolden the specific in-text citations after you have finished writing your document (because on any occasion that you click on Format citations in the Paperpile menu, the emboldening will disappear if it is not a rule of the citation style).
my suggestion would be just to use your preferred citation style, but to only embolden the specific in-text citations after you have finished writing your document (because on any occasion that you click on Format citations in the Paperpile menu, the emboldening will disappear if it is not a rule of the citation style).
This is exactly what I did, but this is also why I posted this question on the forum because it is not a sustainable solution. If there is no existing solution, could that be a future feature? Or maybe this is too dependent on gdoc, on which you don’t have control of.
The formatting of in-text citations depends on the selected citation style, which we get from the citation style language (CSL) repository. This is community-based and regularly updated. If you need a long-term solution for future grant applications @Julien_Cohen-Adad, requesting a new citation style from CSL that meets your needs may be another option to consider.