Endnote collaborator unable to read my Bookends refs

[nieder]

I'm collaborating on a manuscript with an Windows Endnote user. I've written my part of the manuscript using Bookends (9.2.2) and added temp citations into Word 2011, e.g. {Eisenstark et al., 1965, Mutat Res, 2, 1-10}.

My collaborator is the one doing the final collating of everyone's contributions and he can't get my stuff formatted. I sent him my Bookends library as xml and he was able to import that into his Endnote, but he still can't format my references in the manuscript. Is there a a way I can set my Bookends references so that his Endnote will understand them? I also have access to Word 2004 on a secondary machine, so while Bookends 9.2.2 can't scan with Word 2011, I can do a reference scan there if that is what will be needed for Endnote to understand the references. Or is it just not possible for Endnote to read Bookend formatted temp citations?

[Jon]

The temp citations are just text (i.e. not formatted). EndNote typically want author, date, unique ID (which Bookends can generate). The problem is that when you export to EndNote as XML, EN replaces the unique ID with their own. So the citations won't match.

I'm not that familiar with EN, but I think it can in fact find citations that are just plain text. Your collaborator should know more about that. If so, ask what text is needed (e.g. author and year?) and create a Bookends format that can be used to generate the corresponding temporary citations. If you have that information I can help you.

Jon
Sonny Software