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From: stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Bibliographic database?
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Date: 2 Mar 90 21:12:33 GMT
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In article <1064.25eacb2d@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> jahayes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
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>Question.  I'm looking for a bibliographic database package that will
>be compatible with Word 4.0 and amenable to the vagaries of scientific
>journals' format preferences.  I have lots of reprints, and titles of


Endnote is a real fine package which I have used since it first came out.
One of the best things about it is that the tech support for the product
is fantastic (a woman named Avi Rappaport is in charge). For instance, I
needed to import a special version of refer bibliogrphies which
classified documents (book, article, proceedings...). Refer normally
doesn't allow this but I use bibtex formats on unix. SO I wrote a
conversion program from bibtex to this special refer format and Avi wrote
a version of Endnote that would read it. I believe this is now the
released version of the product. This work was done despite the fact that
there were very few users (3 I think) at the time who considered this a
problem. If other companies operated tech support like this the mac world
would be a much friendlier place.

As far as being able to deal with many bibliography formats, Endnote
allows you to define your own formats so that shouldn't be a problem. The
only problem which has caused me any greif is that if you have commas
between the data fields of a reference format (author, title, year...)
and one of the pieces of data is missing in a particular citation, the
commas remain and you get (author,,year) which isn't too nice.

I have approx 1100 entries in my reference database and speed is never a
problem. Everything happens fast.

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