I have been updating a very large EndNote database (not online) and was looking for some advice with respect to the Journal Term lists:
Many of the bibliographic entries have been displaying incorrectly because imports from SciFinder, etc. leave the primary journal field with an abbreviation instead of the full name. The full name is reported in the Alternate Journal field. As a result, any entry like this appears in the biblo as full form (incorrect).
Since I’d rather not have ~5 different terms defined for the same journal (every time I get a slightly different abbreviation in the Journal field), what would be the most efficient way of making the program consistent? Additionally, are there any precautionary steps I can take with future Imports to ensure consistency? (I’d really rather not edit every import for this…)
Sounds elegant & simple - I like that! A follow up question though:
I’m assuming EndNote (X5) treats Chem. Mater. , Chem Mater , Chem. Mater , Chem Mater. as completely different abbreviations. Is there a way to auto-check this so I don’t have to inspect every imported entry?
Maybe I should be doing something on the SciFinder/WebofScience side…?
That being said, EndNote only has three abbreviation spots so if I “wanted to be lazy” I think I could only feed it, say, 3/4 of the above “incorectly spelled” abbreviations? (not my intention)
Thanks! The term list was quite helpful and cleaned a lot of things up!! Don’t know if I’ll turn off the autocomplete due to the author fields, but it is definitely eliminated many of the full-term (unwanted) journal names in the biblio! Best,