I’m about to submit a book manuscript with a bibliography of nearly 600 references, and I need to correct many of the records in the Endnote library and then update in Word. However, many of the record numbers in the citations embedded in my Word document are out of sync with the numbers in my Endnote library. I wanted to solve this by exporting my Word citations to a Traveling Library, but apparently the record numbers of this library will not match the citations in the document.
I desperately need a solution other than using my existing Endnote library and manually correcting all the erroneous record numbers in my citations! Your suggestions will be very much appreciated.
Michael
(Longtime bibl-manager user, beginning with Papyrus 25+ years ago)
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Thanks Leanne, I really apporeciate your helpful reply and readiness to follow up. Also, sorry I wasn’t clear enough about my problem.
In fact I just got off the phone with Tom at TR tech support, who worked through the problem with me hands-on - and it turns out not to be a problem.
Based on various web postings by EN users and my own observations, I was under the impression that:
(1)A Traveling Library created from the citations in a Word doc will have different record numbers to those embedded in the EN citation markers in the document. THIS IS TRUE.
(2)Consequently, if references are edited in the Traveling Library and the user then attempts to “Update Citations and Bibl” in Word, EN will be unable to sync because of the disparity in record numbers, and will require the user to manually match each Word citatioon to a record in the EN library. THIS IS NOT TRUE!
It turns out that if the user does an Update in Word immediately after exporting to a Traveling Library, EN is able match the citations in the document to the records in the library even though the record numbers remain discrepant. Tom added that if a group of people working on the same document share a Traveling Library, they will also have no issues syncing their document to this library, providing they perform an Update with the Traveling Library before doing anything else.
Two caveats that were emphasized:
(1)ONLY the Traveling Library should be open in Endnote.
(2)If Endnote citations are unformatted in the Word document, it will no longer be able to sync with the Traveling Library. (The readon being that under these circumstances, Endnote’s ONLY way of syncing is by record number.)
Hope others find this as helpful as I did.
…Michael