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- From: logan@neuro.usc.edu (Christy Logan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: Bibliographer/reference manager
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 14:32:50 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1992Dec31.065957.29928@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@atlantix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
- >
- >The "state of the art" bibliography manager (what ever that means...)
- >is Procite.
-
- Another option is Reference Manager by Research Information Systems, Inc.
- in San Diego (phone (619) 438-5526.) It runs around $500 as I recall.
- It is a DOS application but runs fine in a window. As was mentioned for
- Procite (which I've never heard of so I can't compare the two), RefMan
- will read in searches from many on-line systems. RIS is good about
- providing a capture option for the system you use if they don't
- already have one available. If you're the first person to request it,
- you get it free.
-
- You can also generate bibliographies formatted for a number of
- different journal styles. You create a manuscript and include the
- RefMan reference number in the text in curly brackets, then run
- it through the bibliography generation part of the program and
- it will change the cites to the appropriate format as well as
- create a properly formatted bibliography. Then if you want to
- format your manuscript for a different journal, you can change
- it easily.This is especially useful if you're changing from
- a journal that alphabetizes and numbers its references to one
- that numbers them in the order cited. RefMan includes journal
- formats for all the major biomedical journals, but I've never
- paid attention to whether it covers other technical journals.
-
- We tried out EndNote and RefMan in demo versions before we
- purchased RefMan and finally decided on RefMan because it
- supported more word processors and download formats and
- was overall more powerful. However, there were some things
- I liked better about EndNote, and both will do the basic
- things I described above. Both were about equally easy
- to use as I recall. However, EndNote is significantly less
- expensive ($99 for the basic module in our university
- bookstore + extra for the downloading module). As I recall,
- they were planning to come out with a Windows version,
- which may be out by now. EndNote is from Niles & Associates
- of Berkeley, CA.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- Christy Logan
- Dept. of Neurology
- University of Southern California
-