collaborating with windows endnote

neuron · Post by **neuron** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:33 pm

I'm writing a paper with a colleague who uses Windows and Endnote. We are each writing about half the paper. There will be > 100 references cited in the article, half from each of us. The question, of course, is... is there a way I can send him my half with the citations in the text so that he can "scan" the document and create a bibliography, or vice versa?

Post by **Jon** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:16 am

Hi,

Yes (with a catch). Export your referernces as EndNote XML and he can import them.

The only problem is that AFAIK, EndNote won't honor the unique id, and will assign the next available id to the imported reference(s), so that the {} citations won't be found. The solution may be for him to omit the id when inserting the citations with EN (I know you can remove them later, but I don't know if you can avoid inserting them when the citation is first placed).

Jon
Sonny Software

neuron · Post by **neuron** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:48 am

Thanks!

So, I can export the references as XML and he can import them, but I'm understanding that he can't "scan" my draft (Word doc) that I've given him with the in-text citations with {} delimiters and create a references list, correct? He would have to insert the citations in the text himself through endnote, and then "scan" with endnote?

Post by **Jon** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:54 am

It depends. If you avoid using the unique id in the citation (placed by either EN or Bookends) then you should be OK. Both EN and Bookends will find citations by content (author, date, title, etc.). At least I think EN will (Bookends certainly will, if you scan with Bookends).

Jon
Sonny Software