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by stef
Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:22 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: need help with a format for citing references
Replies: 2
Views: 2645

Ha!

But, no, this is an apparently common in-text citation format for proceedings of (bio)informatics conferences...

Sigh.

Thanks anyway!
by stef
Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:26 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: need help with a format for citing references
Replies: 2
Views: 2645

need help with a format for citing references

For a current manuscript I have to cite references within the text using the first letter(s) of the authors. Can this be done in Bookends. How? Can anyone suggest a work-around? Here are the details of the requirements: [Ez99] for a source with one author: E (capital) stands for the first letter of ...
by stef
Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:02 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: 9.2 feature
Replies: 1
Views: 2243

9.2 feature

3. Importing of reference information from PubMed automatically when attaching its pdf.

----- THANK YOU! This is incredibly useful! Thank you, thank you.

The other feature updates are of course great as well, but this one just made my day!
by stef
Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:13 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: using Bookends to replace eTocs
Replies: 0
Views: 18990

using Bookends to replace eTocs

Hi!

Is anyone here using automated PubMed searches as a replacement for the incoming flood of eTOCs emails into their inboxes?
How well does it work?
How many journals are you searching this way?
What are your experiences?

Thanks!
by stef
Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:41 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Search across databases
Replies: 2
Views: 3185

Hi ryanpei! I want to keep my databases separate (one for each subspecialty) I think I know what you mean, because I also was using that other program before. ;-) But Bookends is soo much better, because of the featue "groups": you can actually keep all references in one single database, j...
by stef
Sun Mar 20, 2005 4:55 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Blank records
Replies: 14
Views: 11537

related to library size mentioned above...

Hello, a comment about the large size of libraries in Bookends: I have noticed that after adding several (10-20-30?) new references to my library and assigning them to groups, the library often increases in size considerably, by about 2 MB or so. To fix this I now rebuild the library after adding ne...