: Is there a way to improve Endnote record consistency? I am required to use Endnote to manage citations. When I find an article, I am expected to create an Endnote record for it, and we have
I am required to use Endnote to manage citations. When I find an article, I am expected to create an Endnote record for it, and we have some internal guidelines as to which fields we consider mandatory (basically the ones needed for proper scientific citations).
Tools like Google scholar allow for a semi-automated workflow, where I can download a record which supposedly has the full bibliographical information on the text. But in fact, the information is often low quality, and I have to clean it up per hand. Inconsistent use of initials, authors sometimes given as First name Last name, sometimes as Last name, First name and similar problems abound. Then there is the problem of missing fields.
Is there something - an add-on or a Web service - which can perform some automatic cleanup? For example, it could search for the ISBN given the title, or vice versa, the way Calibre does. It could fill in a publisher based on the journal's name, sparing me hunting publisher names all over the Internet. I understand that such a system isn't perfect, but even if it fetched the possible matches and showed me asking for confirmation, this would be a huge improvement over the manual process.
If this isn't possible, is there another tool which supports it and has a reasonable Endnote compatibility allowing for seamless import and export? I am specifically interested in bibtex and other TeX compatible tools, because I plan to transition to TeX for publications in the near future.
More posts by @Shakeerah107
: Is it worth spending money on a subsidy publisher? The boss owes me about 000, and is going to pay me in the coming months. I can live without this money for now, but I'm wondering
: How can I improve the grammar of this paragraph about the role of internet? People use computers for many different activities, from reading online newspapers to listening to music.
2 Comments
Sorted by latest first Latest Oldest Best
Endnote is truly dreadful. I'd recommend using Zotero to collect the data, then clean it up before exporting to RIS format,and then importing that into Endnote.
I'm not that familiar with Endnote, but I did find this site. Looking over it, I think there might be something here that would help you out.
Endnotes plugins
Terms of Use Privacy policy Contact About Cancellation policy © selfpublishingguru.com2024 All Rights reserved.