Re: Multiple authors, multiple sites

Thanks Bruce, A nice coherent explanation....

We'll let you know how it goes....

Cheers

Dave Graham
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>>> Bruce.Citron[bruce.citronva.gov] 27/02/2008 10:40
>>>
Dave-
To handle "keeping references coherent when multiple
authors are
co-writing, from different sites and with their own end-note
libraries",
I think that one option implemented in EndNote is the
traveling library
that embeds in the Word document.  However, I, and my
colleagues, never
use that since it is useful to keep our own libraries
updated and
independent (with overall different sets of references) and
to allow any
author to format or unformat at will with no library
conflicts.

All of us have been entering the in text, temporary
citations as
[lastname,year,pages] and if there are multiple references
at that
point, they are separated by semicolons.  These format fine
since
endnote has not found two references in any of our libraries
that meet
those criteria.  The other advantage is avoiding the use of
record
numbers which only mean things to the computer and mean
different things
for different authors.  Using the lastname of the first
author, year and
pages tells you exactly which reference it refers to if, for
example,
there are multiple references from that author in that year.
 When you
have a copy of the article in your stack, the record number
tells you
nothing useful, however the page number confirms that this
is the
article meant for that spot.  Another advantage is the
ability to enter
the in text citations anytime and anywhere even if you are
without
EndNote.  Eventually EndNote will format it fine and if,
during
formatting, the ref is missing, it is easy to have EndNote
grab it from
PubMed with just those 3 parameters (especially if author,
year, and
pages are the saved default parameters for the EndNote
PubMed search.
You have to decide how to handle the page numbers- PubMed
seems to
download abbreviated pages, so that is what we use, e.g.,
[maxam,1977,560-4].  If I want to send some or all refs from
my library
to someone, it is immaterial what the record numbers end up
as in their
library after they import them- they are not used for
formatting the
refs. 

In fact, in the latest EndNote, one can now select the use
of pages
under EndNote Preferences- Temporary Citations- Use field
instead of
record number- pages.
Good luck with it,
Bruce
Bruce A. Citron, Ph.D., Dir., Lab of Molecular Biology,  Bay
Pines VA
Healthcare System, Res. & Dev. 151


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