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Jon
University of Edinburgh
Thu, 05/17/2007 - 12:12
I use EndNote to keep track of references and for inserting citations in papers, reports, etc. One of the annoying things recently has been when putting in web references. The "Author" is often an organisation, e.g. The Geological Society, which EndNote substituted to "Society, G. T.", which is what the author names should be abbreviated to in the bibliography.
To get around that, add the name as "The Geological Society,". The comma at the end stops the automatic name substitution. If the name has a comma in it, replace it with two commas and don't put one on the end. That's makes life easy again 
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Bloody typical.
Bloody typical that I find out this program exists no more than 5 minutes after having finished all of my essays for this term, including a 15 page effort with 30+ references which were hell to keep track of.
(hey, for me 30 is a lot )
Endnote is a god-send. My
Endnote is a god-send. My thesis had a hundred or so references - there is no way I would've got all those correct without it.
I also use it as a kind of library. You can search your references (and by downloading the citation from Web of Science or ScienceDirect you get the keywords and abstract) and then link to the PDF (which I save to my harddrive). It uses absolute links though (C:/Document and Settings/Jon/blah/blah) so moving the "library" to a different computer is not possible
Sounds great!Will it tell me
Sounds great!Will it tell me when I've been stupid and included an in-text reference without a full reference at the end, or forgotton to remove a full reference if i take an in-text refrerence out when I'm editing a section?
It integrates nicely with
It integrates nicely with Word (not so good if you.re using OpenOffice). You add a citation (by clicking a few buttons) in the main text (i.e. add Smith & Jones, 1990) which puts in the (Smith and Jones, 1990) in the main text. It also adds the appropriate reference at the end. If you delete the citation, the reference disappears. You don't mess with the references at the end at all, because you don't need to.
When you've done, you can format both the references and citations. Most major journal styles are included and this saves a lot of hassle - no longer do you have to reformat 50 references because the journal you've decided to submit to uses bold for volumes rather than italics! It also sorts out the order of the bibliography - some journals are date orded, some alphabetical, some are in the order they appear in the text. With EndNote none of this matters. But I'm going to stop now 'cos I sound like salesman
Sounds great. I'll have to
Sounds great. I'll have to see about getting a copy. There were a few stupid errors with the referencing in some of the stuff I've just handed in (YESSSS!!! ), which i spotted at the last minute and I've got something 2 to 3 times the size to do next year. Looks like I'll need it.
Edit- It costs how much!?!? Maybe I'll pass. Unless they have it at uni, that is...