Bibliographies and endnotes/footnotes

[The Rev. Ian E. Rock, M.A.]

Keeping track of the bibliography and managing bibliographic references in
either footnotes or endnotes can be very tedious in large documents in an
academic setting. Is there an add-in for managing these in Word? I have
been introduced to a word-processor called Nota Bene, but before I look at
it, I would like to see whether Microsoft or a reliable developer has a
solution that has been tested.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Yes. There are a number, and all the ones I know of have add-ins for Word.
MS has left this field to third parties.

The big ones are EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager, which probably run
about $200, but if you don't need the sophisticated features required by
full-time research scientists who collaborate and publish in multiple
languages, I would not be surprised if you could find a cheaper alternative,
though I don't know of any for Windows (suggestions welcome). Search the
web for "bibliographic management software" and see what comes up. I think
the big three are all made by ISI Research Software (so why have 3 separate
programs?), but the only address I know off the top of my head is
endnote.com. EndNote has a 30-day free trial download, I imagine the others
do as well.

Since I note the Reverend, if you are dealing with ancient languages you may
be happier with NotaBene, I vaguely remember that is one of their
specialties? EndNote has an email list and if you dig on the EndNote site
you could eventually find links to the online archive for it, which would
give you a sense of some of the things people do/try to do with EndNote.
(the others may as well, I just don't know, cause EndNote is what I have).

 

[Ann Tech Writer]

I've received a question about a document that used Endnote to add references
(I assume they were placed by the software as cross-references). However, my
client needs to add several references and does not have Endnote. Is there a
way to use the endnote feature in Word to add to the references and not have
to manually renumber?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It depends on how EndNote was used. Endnote doesn't create endnotes or
footnotes but uses Word's, so if the doc uses either of those, just add more
and Word will fit them into the existing sequence. If the doc has in-text
citations and a reference list at the end, I think additional citations will
have to be done manually, but I'm less familiar with in-text citations.

Cross-references is not really relevant to EndNote (I don't think that's a
good way to describe the mechanism), but in case the doc has
cross-references, it may look like some notes are not renumbering, in which
case hit F9 to update the cross-references.

Tell them to test on a copy?

DM