Sonny Software

Hi,

I am now working in a very collaborative environment with people using PeeCees (poor sods), but even worse - EndNote (oh dear!). Is there anyway that I can keep using Bookends when writing manuscripts together with these people, with them using EndNote?

I would hate to lose my Mellel/Bookends combo, but it seems as if I will definitely have to lose Mellel, so I would HATE to lose Bookends as my main bibliography software as well!

Thanks a bunch.

Hi,

If you import their EndNote library (exported as XML) into a fresh database, you'll have their data *and* their record numbers (as your unique ids). Then, if you cite by "Author, Date, Unique ID" your temp citations and theirs will match. So if they scan the paper with your citations, the references will be found and formatted. Note that this isn't Cite While You Write, but rather cite by temporary insertion (which EN does, too).

One thing you can't do is *both* scan the document. It should be you or them, sticking with one bib manager to actually generate the final citations and bibliography.

Jon
Sonny Software

That's great thanks Jon - I'll try it out and see how it goes!

I'll be the one doing the scanning and unscanning though - as little EndNote action as possible!