I would like to second Jack's important pointers for Mac users below. I'd
also like to add that working with the unformatted citations has its pros
and cons.
It is much, much faster, more reliable for cutting and pasting references
within a document (or between them), and convenient if you like to just
type page references straight into the citation. However, as the citations
are a kind of raw code within your Word text, they must be perfect.
Otherwise, when you go to finally format them all and generate the
bibliography for the document before you send it off, the process fails. I
learnt this the hard way last week when it took me two hours to figure out
by a process of elimination that an accidental soft-return in the middle
of my 40,000 word thesis draft was preventing the process from completing
(argh!).
Emma
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Emma Fisher, B Des (Hons)
PhD Candidate
Faculty of Design
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
www.swinburne.edu.au/design
On 7/02/13 4:25 AM, "jack Ox" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I agree with Don-- could not live without Endnote- but if you are on a
>Mac, there are some things you need to know or you will go mad! First,
>turn off all automatic scanning in word-- do spell and grammar checks by
>clicking it manually. Second, turn-off auto formatting of references--
>click the button with green checks to do it manually, and third, turn off
>the connection between inline citation and reference at bottom. You
>should have a smooth experience- without slow and groaning typing.
>
>happy end one,
>
>Jack Ox
>On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Don Norman wrote:
>
>> Let me second Terry's comment. If your files were in EndNote, we could
>> insert them as references into our papers with no typing.
>>
>> I could not exist without EndNote. I have 1160 references in mine (I
>>just
>> looked)
>>
>> Can it do chronological listing? Hah. Name a journal and it can spit it
>>out
>> in that journal's format; they have 488 journal styles. Moreover, you
>>can
>> edit each style and add your own. Was your paper rejected by an APA
>> journal and you want to resubmit it to a secondary journal such as
>>Nature
>> or Science? Just tell endnote and woof, your references are now in
>> numerical order, in their weird styles. Print out your listing in
>> alphabetical order by journal, by date, by author, by article title, by
>> type of item (book, edited book, journal, electronic, by the order in
>>which
>> the items occur in your main file (usually the paper you are
>>writing)....
>> ) It is incredibly versatile.
>>
>>
>> Need a reference, just connect to your favorite library (either your
>> university or, in my case, I prefer the american Library of Congress),
>> search, and without any typing, you have the right reference.
>>
>> If you use Word, endnote inserts both the in-line reference (as Norman
>>said
>> (1843), ...._ and also the full thing at the end of the manuscript.
>>
>> It has a way of storing pdfs of papers and entire texts. also figures.
>>
>> I am now writing the endnotes for my revision of Design of Everyday
>>Things,
>> and EndNote is absolutely essential: it is always one of the open
>>windows
>> on my two (very large) screen workplace (Apple 27 inch iMac): Word,
>>Adobe
>> Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, End Note, email.
>>
>> You don't have to use EndNote. There are others. But I have been using
>>it
>> for about 15 years. I could not function without it.
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Charles Burnette <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Terry,
>>>
>>> Many thanks! I had no idea! I was locked in an object-oriented, data
>>> mining kind of thinking and just doing what came naturally.
>>>
>>> I'll see if Endnote can handle a chronological listing. In any case
>>>I
>>> will try to make an endnote file and send/post it as soon as possible.
>>> I
>>> want it all to be as user friendly as possible. It will doubtless help
>>> with the book too.
>>>
>>> Many thanks, Keep being Terry!
>>>
>>> Chuck
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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