All iPads Writing thesis, citation etc in word for ipad.

[Delarock]

Hello, I would like to ask: is it possible to seriously write scientific and other academic papers in Word for iPad, where one needs to cite and do similar tasks? Is there any solution? Something that could replace the combination of Word + EndNote on a Mac? What do you use?”

 

[Slartibart]

There is Zotero, Endnote itself, and other - the integration is not as tight as on a desktop - but for academic article writing in e.g. life science it is perfectly fine - for article writing Apple’s Pages and any reference manager is fine, because publishers have quite minimal requirements (yep, a word document, 1.5 line spacing, references/footnotes depending on field, figures separately).

For a thesis I would recommend Texifier together with References or Zotero on the iPad instead of Word so. If LaTeX give you the creeps 😀 - Typst is very nice IMHO for the intended purpose.

And just in case: for quick vector illustrations or image annotation used as figures, the free Inkpad Libre is really nice.

 

[iPadified]

Hello, I would like to ask: is it possible to seriously write scientific and other academic papers in Word for iPad, where one needs to cite and do similar tasks? Is there any solution? Something that could replace the combination of Word + EndNote on a Mac? What do you use?”

Actually, if you use Word for iPad (not the best word processor - lazy Microsoft!), Mendelay has a plugin. I have not tested it for awhile but it worked similarly to the Word plugin for Mac. You access your Mendeley online library with the plug-in and format references as you like.

EDIT: Good luck with your thesis!

 

[Student of Life]

It’s possible but it would be exponentially easier and less time constraining to just use a laptop instead.

 

[iPadified]

It’s possible but it would be exponentially easier and less time constraining to just use a laptop instead.

I tend to agree. Not because of Words limited functions (you mostly do not need it for thesis writing anyway) but the lack of other apps (statistics, data handling, scientific software etc.)

 

[joeblow7777]

It’s possible but it would be exponentially easier and less time constraining to just use a laptop instead.

I feel like this sums up many productivity tasks on an iPad.