Papers uses different icons throughout the program. This glossary will help you discover Papers more in depth, and how the icons you encounter can help keep your library organized.

General icons

- Blue dots show up next to unread documents in your library.

- A half blue dot indicates you have opened the document and started reading it, but you may not have finished reading it yet.

- Papers detected an error, this icon is displayed when your library contains duplicates of the same paper.

- Citations

- Drag and drop your publications into this importing box.

Searching in Papers

- This icon is displayed next to articles already imported to your library.

Collections

Manual collections: to include articles or documents into these collections you manually have to drag and drop them into the collection.

Smart collections include articles and documents based on criteria you set, for example all papers with more than three stars, or all papers containing a specific keyword.

Livfe collections are those collections you create to use with Papers Livfe. You can keep these collections private and share them only with the people you invite, or you can make your collection public for all users to see and subscribe to.

Authors

- Address card displayed next to author's names in the authors list view.

- This icon is displayed in the authors list next to an institutional author or company name.

- Author icon displayed next to individual authors in the authors list.

Document types

Article

Journal Articles / reprint

Magazine

Newspaper

Conference proceeding

Manuscript

Book

Book /Booklet / eBook / Book Chapter

(New) Manuscript

Thesis / Thesis Chapter

Media

Artwork

Illustration / Painting

Map

Sculpture

Chart / Diagram

Equation

Figure / Photo

Table

Presentation

Poster

Broadcast / Interview

Film

Video

Podcast

Song

Database

Grants

Invoice

Recording

Media

Movie

Audio file

Recipe

Constitution