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

[Flowstates]

At my university it is some disciplines such as physicist that insist on using LaTex, unfortunately. Word is the de facto standard in cross disciplinary collaborations and in corporate so learn to use that instead of LaTex.

I agree that for collaborative work, the document of reference is most often written in .docx . However, the original question pertained to the ergonomics of academic writing, that are definitely simplified once the simple synthax of LaTeX is learned.

To note that exporting to other file formats is trivial.

Overleaf is a great way to experiment and solves the collaborative hassle.

 

[123123123]

For scientific writing, you also need a professional ref. software.

It might make life easier (depending on what citation/referencing style you use), but it's hardly a necessity. I'm pretty sure I wrote most of my dissertation in Google Docs, which at the time had no citation supports.

 

[StoneJack]

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?”

Just no

 

[RaphaZ]

It might make life easier (depending on what citation/referencing style you use), but it's hardly a necessity. I'm pretty sure I wrote most of my dissertation in Google Docs, which at the time had no citation supports.

Interesting, how did you solve the citation/referencing phase?

 

[Slartibart]

Interesting, how did you solve the citation/referencing phase?

can’t answer for google docs - buy "even" markdown can do reference style links - on an iPad you could use Archimedes, Textastic, Texifier, Joplin, Obsidian… I can go on 🙃

 

[123123123]

Interesting, how did you solve the citation/referencing phase?

Put references in reference section. Cite in text as appropriate. It’s simple when using a referencing style that cites by name, rather than by number in order of first appearance. In the latter case, I can see the appeal of using a tool, but there’s not much need if you’re citing by name.

 

[ctg7w6]

I work in the humanities, so much of my job is writing long-form (articles, books). I love my iPad for reading on Zotero. If I were in a pinch I could do a lot on the iPad.

But at this point (and even with iPadOS 26), I would never CHOOSE to write scholarly. articles or books on my iPad. COULD I? Yes. But, like much with the iPad, it’s much much faster to do it on a laptop.

 

[NastyMatt]

When I did my Masters dissertation (10 years ago) it was mandatory to do references as Surname (Year) and have a references section at the end. So it was simple. This could easily be done on an iPad in Word.

However, my experience was I liked to switch between devices (laptop sometimes.. then on my PC) so even if I was doing it again I think my workflow would have to be device agnostic.