Re: OT: End Note ?

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

John M. R. Bruner wrote:
> At 04:09 AM 8/27/2007, flash wrote:
> > Y'all,
> >
> > Does anyone here have experience of End Note or another citation
> > program?
> Didn't XyWrite do it all? (E.G. the command DF, as I recall, would dump
> all the footnotes to the end of the file instead of their appearing on
> the current page.)
We're not just talking about (generic) end notes, as opposed to
footnotes. The application End Note, and Ibidem, and others like
them enable one to create a database of references to be cited,
and then cite them just by selecting the one desired. They also
enable one to output the notes or a bibliographical listing in
any of several "styles": e.g., commas or periods between the
elements of the citation (author, title, series/journal title,
place, date, publisher), heading or sentence capitalization of
titles, and the like.
The advantage of that is that if you're an author or an editor
and have done your bibliography in Chicago style, and the
publisher wants another style, you don't have to reformat
everything. (It's also great if--as I too often was--you're
editing a Festschrift or a collection of symposium papers, and
each author used a different style and the publisher wants one
uniform style enforced. Of course, you still have to try to
figure out whether the work being cited is an article in a
journal, a chapter in a book, or a monograph in a series, most
authors being clueless about the subtle way of showing this by
one's typography and punctuation.)
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx