.. _sec:ads:

ADS Library
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.. highlight:: none

Goal
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Set-up a private ADS library and to export bibliography items.


Preparation
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Create an ADS account and sign in with your account.

Create a private library
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Here we create a new project named project_A.

.. figure:: ads_lib.png
   :width: 600

.. figure:: project_A.png
   :width: 600

Now, you should have an empty library named project_A.

.. figure:: empty_project_A.png
   :width: 600

Add some references to the library
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Next, we search some references papers by specifying the full name of the first
author and the year of publication.

.. note:: Of course, there are other ways to find reference papers on ADS.

.. figure:: search.png
   :width: 600

We also filter the initial results by limiting to refereed publications only.

.. figure:: filter.png
   :width: 600

Now, you should get only 4 results in total.

.. figure:: results.png
   :width: 600

Select three of them and add them to the existing library project_A.

.. note:: If publications were already in the existing library, only the new
   ones will be added.

.. figure:: add_to_lib.png
   :width: 600

Export the references in the AASTeX format
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.. note:: The `AASTeX <https://journals.aas.org/aastex-package-for-manuscript-preparation/>`_
   format is one of the formats provided by American Astronomical Society (AAS)
   assist authors in preparing manuscripts intended for submission to
   AAS-affiliated journals like the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ).

.. figure:: get_aastex.png
   :width: 600

.. figure:: bibitem_aastex.png
   :width: 600

Final remarks
-------------

This is the end of this thread. Please continue to the :ref:`sec:overleaf`
thread.

.. note:: The `ADS Help Pages <https://adsabs.github.io/help/>`_ provide
   documentation, tutorials, and other general information about the ADS
   services.