I'm posting this query to the list and also to Tipmonkies
http://www.tipmonkies.com/
I'm just starting a big book project which is going to take me five years
and will involve an extensive bibliography and an awful lot of footnotes.
Worse, it will be a multimedia bibliography which so far is spreading across
bloglines, furl, and del.icio.us as well as all kinds of other websites and
print media.
What I would like is some kind of template - online or offline - where I can
collect my growing multimedia bibliography in an orderly fashion, and in
established format, MLA or whatever.
An important function I'd like is one with fields which retain the correct
formatting for each entry, i.e. Automatically generating apostrophes around
certain kinds of titles, or making them italic or underlined, etc. Doing
that kind of formatting is the most tedious part of the job, so a record
which only exports as plain text, for example, wouldn't be much help because
I want to be able to then paste references into footnotes and also generate
or paste the whole list into a Word doc when I need to - and keep the
formatting at the same time. A tall order! But I always end up with
references all over the place and this time I want to start off on the right
foot.
I started creating this in Excel but realised it would be sensible to find
out whether someone has already done it first - does anyone have any ideas?
oh, and I am Mac-based :)
Thanks
Sue
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