What is TextCite good for? It was designed in order to maintain lists of textual citations, organizing them in order to be able to find them easily during the writing of articles, theses or other publications. The most important capacity of TextCite is its categorization and search system, which helps you to quickly find groups of citations, or a given citation in particular, and use its contents in the document you are involved in writing.
TextCite is designed to aid in the composition of publications which depend heavily on references to other publications. For example, TextCite will be extremely useful in the Humanities, where publications contain from dozens to hundreds of references to primary or secondary literature. In addition, TextCite can also be useful for academics and professionals in other areas. The list given below describes some of the situations where TextCite can be useful.
Humanities: TextCite can help researchers and students in philosophy, literature, philology, history, theology and other disciplines in this area, where the bibliography of an article, book or thesis can be as important as the content itself.
Law: Lawyers and legal specialists in academia frequently need to collect large quantities of references to cases, laws and juridical writings before sitting down to write. TextCite can make it much easier to organize and extract this information.
Sciences: In the sciences, much of the content of publications produced by researchers consists of data derived directly from experiments, theoretical argumentation or the design of systems. Nevertheless, it is also necessary to cite the previous literature in your area, extensively in some cases. TextCite can help you to organize your readings in the literature of your area of research.