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Hi Jan, I am on vacation in Italy at the moment and just saw this post. Use the EndNote (Refer) format that we supply with Bookends (enable it in the Formats window first). Select the references you want to export (make them hits). Then -- 1. Biblio -> Biblio Formatter 2. Send the 'bibliography' to ...

The bad news is that, as you found, in Bookends 7 all references are made hits when you choose Refs -> Show All References. The good news is that this will not be true in Bookends 8, which will have a much improved way of dealing with reference lists. Sorry, no date yet, but it's coming along... Jon...

Thanks, aorchid, but I couldn't find this file in any of the public folders on your web site.

Jon
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Hi Ralf, Sort All References sorts the database. You want to sort the Hits List (which by its nature can be in any arbitrary order you might need). To do this, select the references you want to print and then sort the Hits (Hits -> Sort Hits List...). When you then print "the hits" they sh...

Hm, I wonder if the format could be damaged? The easiest thing to do would be to send me the simple database, the simple document, and a copy of the format you are using (stuffed, please). I'll see if I can reproduce the problem here and let you know what I find. You can send them to me at support@s...

Hi Matthew, Whenever Bookends crashes during normal operation, it almost always means that the database has incurred some damage. The fix is to do File -> Database Maintenance -> Rebuild (Keep User Data). If that fails, don't Keep User Data (in case that is corrupted). The final try is to remove Boo...

Hi Doug, For autor-date citations you can sort by author, sort by year, or output as entered. For custom citation Bookends does not "know" what you are citing, and it doesn't try to guess -- it doesn't sort the citations at all. If you want them sorted by author in the scanned document, pl...

The EndNote (Refer) import filter is designed to meet the needs of most people, and based upon the feedback we get it seems to work pretty well (others may care to comment). It is also easy to edit the import filter to deal with special cases. My advice is to try it with a few references (up to 50, ...

We get this question often, and we certainly have users who have written export styles and then imported into Bookends, but it seems it is not easy. One solution that has worked for some is to open the Pro-Cite database with EndNote (on a PC -- the Mac version apparently can't do this), export as Re...

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