Brendan Clarke, NHS Education for Scotland, [email protected] 2022-10-17

This is a brief overview of referencing in Quarto and R. It’s aimed at the knowledge, information, and data workforce in health, social care, and housing, in Scotland. It covers:

• adding references from DOI or database search using Rstudio’s visual Quarto editor
• manual tidying of reference metadata
• instructions describing how to add an existing reference list to a Quarto document
• a brief introduction to using R to automate reference tidying using bib2df()
• some examples of simple visualisations using reference data
• some guidance on changing reference styles

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