What is Gelit for?

Gelit is a scientific orientated reference manager for Windows. It provides the user an efficient use of bibliographic data by optimizing the thee main aspects input of bibliographic data, performing queries and export/printing of records:

Input of bibliographic data
In the screenmask (which is used for data input), correlated fields have same color attributes. This structure increases the readability of your data as well as the usage of a bigger font size.

It is very important for the usability for your data that it has a homogenous character: e.g. it is not desirable to have two styles for a single keyword (with/without spaces or hyphens). Gelit provides lookup lists that ease the input of bibliographic data in a homogenous way. For instance, when you enter a not yet known keyword in a keyword field, Gelit displays the lookup list for keywords and provides you a list of all used keywords. You can even search for words in these lookup lists.

Data input is very easy in Gelit: the screen mask does not require a user-given value indicating what kind of bibliographic data is to be input; the user just fills out the fields he has data for. Anyway, the indication of bibliographic data type is done by print masks (see below).

Performing queries
In most cases, you put your bibliographic data in several big data pools; when required, single records are assembled to a reference list/bibliography. Gelit provides a powerful query interface that makes it easy to find needed records. You can open logic relations between several query fields and have several filters you can use on the field content (like equal, contains, begins with, like...).

Also the query interface makes use of lookup lists; you can search for authors, titles, keywords , journals etc. before starting the main query.

Printing bibliographies
The output of reference lists/bibliographies for word processors as well as the printout to printers is controlled by print masks. These print masks contain the sequence of data fields and apply a special output format e.g. on authors.

A special feature of Gelit is the integrated, automatic scientific author formatter you can produce reference lists like this one with:

Grögel [1984]: A. Grögel/Klemes Wilhelmi: Luftbildarchäologie in Niedersachsen. Stand- Entwicklung -Perspektiven in: Berichte zur Denkmalpflege in Niedersachsen., 4, 1984, 16-24.

Hase [1995a]: Claus-Peter Hase: Siegel Mechthilds, Herzogin von Braunschweig (1261), Typ I in: Jochen Luckhardt [Hrsg.]/Franz Niehoff [Hrsg.], Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit. Herrschaft und Repräsentation der Welfen 1125-1235. Katalog der Ausstellung Braunschweig 1995. Band 1: Katalog., 1, 1995, 364; Abb.

Hase [1995b]: Claus-Peter Hase: Siegel Wilhelms von Lüneburg (*1184, +1212/13), Typ III in: Jochen Luckhardt [Hrsg.]/Franz Niehoff [Hrsg.], Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit. Herrschaft und Repräsentation der Welfen 1125-1235. Katalog der Ausstellung Braunschweig 1995. Band 1: Katalog., 1, 1995, 361-362.

As said before, Gelit does not know differences between several literature types during the input of data. As diffrent literature types require diffrent citation styles, print masks have to perform the detection of which literature type the current record might be. Therefore the user can specify up to five conditions which indicate when a (data) field may be printed or not. When you build these conditions, you can check for the contents of the other data fields as well the content of the last printed field and the next printed field. This eases the punctation between datafields very much.

Once printmasks are created, they can be used of other users as point-and-click solution.

Gelit provides several targets for reference lists printouts: Besides the Windows printer, you can easily create

RTF files (for use in word processors),
LaTeX-files (also as TheBibliography) and
HTML-files (for publications in the web).
Of course, font styles, special characters etc. are automatically converted.