Can bookends do this?

[DW]

Hi

I use Endnote but it does not support the rather complicated author features I want -

Let's say author's name is "Eden Chen", on endnote I have two options:

- enter name as "Eden Chen," in which case the name when sorted is listed with "E", not "C"
- enter name as "Chen, Eden", in which case in temporary citation, the name + year format is (Chen, 2000)

But I want the name in temp citatino to appear as "Eden Chen" since I have a lot of authors with that surname. And in the references, I want it to sort by last name (it can display as Eden Chen, or Chen, Eden).

In endnote I know I can turn off display of author's name, and then type in the name I want. But I have so many names it's really difficult to having to keep changing it.

A much more complicated example is name that has multiple titles such as Sir Professor Canon, and some names have optional parts which should all be included in the list of references, but not in the temporary citation.

So, Bookends, how do you deal with this requirement?

Thanks

David

[Jon]

Hi DW,

The short answer is that you can have Bookends create citations that look any way you like by subverting the Copy Formatted option (you would create a format that surrounds the text in curly brackets}. But if you only want occasional changes in the way that Copy Citation creates the temporary citation, I would recommend that you simply edit the temporary citation after it is inserted. In the case you mentioned, simply type in "Eden" before Chen.

Bookends does not care how the temporary citation looks, only that the information in it unambiguously specifies a reference in the database.

Jon
Sonny Software