I’m new to Endnote and I’m finishing my dissertation. I know, I know, I should have started earlier. I’m kind of old school.
The thing is that I have all my citations written as plain text (i.e. by myself), without any reference management software.
My question is the following:
Is there any kind of authomatic way in Endnote to get plain text citations converted into Endnote’s references that I can then manage in Word?
In other words, I would like to find some authomatic (not manual) way of converting this:
Wacquant, L. (1997) Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 21(2), pp. 341‐353.
Into something like this:
Author: Wacquant, L.
Year: 1997
Title: Three Pernicious Premises in the Study of the American Ghetto
Publication Name: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Easily, no. You might read overthis old thread: particularly the cb2Bib tool (which I have never tried).
If you have access to a database, it may be far easier to download them than to try to manipulate a hand written set. Designing Macros is time consuming especially if there aren’t clear rules. How many references are you talking about?
Might start with the ones that you can access quickly. Often if a database is available import your favorite topics rather than one by one, then cross them off your list and contemplate how many are left and what is the best way to move forward. Books, for example are available from Library of Congress and from many public university library databases. – really the time to do that is easier than developing a macro and then finding all the mistakes. A couple hours probably!