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Attached is a format file for the Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution.
A journal with a weird name, but it is a good evo-devo journal.

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I solved my problem with non-standard abbreviations of journal names. Since I could not trust the autofill option due to old imported references with wrong PMIDs, I used the option in Bookends to list groups of journal names. In groups containing more than 5 references I did a find & replace (jo...

Yes, you are right. You can delete it, if you want. Anyway, it seems that even if someone downloaded references from Medline/Web of Sciences in the early days (around 2000) that PMIDs are not correct, which can result in wrong autofill results. In both cases the PMIDs were wrong. Original references...

Well, I have been using the reference import feature (in Endnote) since 2000. It is possible that I also imported references from ISIS (don't know anymore), but mostly from Pubmed, I am sure. It seems that I have many PMIDs, which do not start with "1". See attached images. Bookends does n...

I think this happens, when there is no DOI in the Bookends reference and an old PMID number, which is not identical with the current one of the article.
Is it possible that 10 years ago the PMID numbers were different? They seem to have less digits in my older references?

Just to show you, what I mean. I did an "autofill from internet" on Nature Reviews journals in my library, which did not have the correct abbreviation of the journals name. In at least two occasions (different journal > easy to spot) it completely changed my reference to something it never...

Here comes my final version of the format file for the journal BioEssays.

Thanks, but I am afraid to damage some of my 2700 references without even knowing. In Endnote, for example, it occasionally happened that the automatic import of a pdf file resulted in a completely different reference entry in the Endnote library. I was very shocked, since I realized that I would ne...

Thanks Jon! The problem is that I don't know which references contain a non-standard journal name. I only find them by accident, when I check the reference list of a newly written paper and realize that sometimes the same journals have different abbreviations in the same list. But you are right, I c...

If other users are interested too, it could be a nice new feature of Bookends:
To compare all journal names of references (type: journal) in the Bookend library with entries in the US abbreviation database. All differing names should be listed and a change to "XY" suggested.

My references in Bookends come from Medline-imports up to 15 years ago. Many of them do not use the US National Standard abbreviations for journals. Do I have to change them manually (autofill from internet) or is there any other solution to this compatibility issue?

Thanks
Reinhard

Awesome!
Thanks a lot

In the journal BioEssays, in-text citations (if more than 2) are separated by a dash. Is it possible to create something like "[5–7]" with the format manager in Bookends? It currently just uses a short dash in all formats.

Thanks
Reinhard

Just realized that in BioEssays references, 4 authors should be listed before "et al." I updated the file...attached There is still one minor problem: "et al." shouldn't be in bold letters...just the author's names But I don't know how to do that in the format manager of Bookends...

Attached is a format file, which I created for the Journal BioEssays.

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