There are several options for Macs.
A very nice Mac only reference database is Sente. It also seeks out papers not in your database, on the web. Actually there are several options. I think academics only use EndNote because their universities buy it for them, rather as we all use Word, a clumsy and distasteful word processor.
The (Mac) word processor I use is Nisus Writer. It is superb, elegant, and handles almost everything Word does including references from several reference database programs.
An alternative is Mendelay, a free, web based reference database and research management environment (also accessible from iPhone and iPad). Mendelay is obviously not Mac based, since it's a web program.
Ranulph
On 6 Feb 2013, at 22:06, Jon Sticklen wrote:
> THere is another path too for Mac users - Pages (in the Apple suite that is like MS Office) also allows inline Endnote references, and builds the References List at the end of document as you enter citations.
>
> ---jon---
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Emma Fisher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ---
>> 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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