There’s one thing I’ve come to learn over the past couple of weeks. Whether you’re speaking to a professor, a post doc or a postgrad student — they all give you the same sympathetic look when you mention you’re trying to sort out your references!
It’s like a curse, I tell you! A damn curse!
The more you do, the more bloody referencing you need to do to get people to believe you — which is troublesome when you’re interdisciplinary, believe me.
Yeah, getting the structure down does make things a lot smoother, I must say.
Now it’s just the case that I have so many papers to sift through. Everything from J Chem Phys to A&A to Astrobio. Not forgetting all of those arXiv papers…
I just took out a day to sort out my bibliography; once I had the basic structure down, it got a lot easier.