Be warned, EndNote 9.0 for Macintosh is not a well-coded piece of software. There is nothing quite like being in the middle of adding some complex footnotes to your thesis draft when EndNote crashes: causing Word, Firefox, Entourage, the Dock, and the Finder to crash along with it. Then, all the various error reporting windows crop up and waste even more time and sanity. That I haven’t lost any important data because of this so far is largely the product of extremely frequent backups.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. In the fall of 2005, I began reading for an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford.
Outside school, I am very interested in photography, writing, and the outdoors. I am writing this blog to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, provide a more personal view of graduate student life in Oxford, and pass on some lessons I've learned here.
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Maybe try RefWorks. It is free for Oxford students.
Maybe not during the middle of your last day of work on this chapter…
Plow through it, then try RefWorks for the next one. You can import your EndNote DB with no problems.
I will give it a try, though you are right to say that this is not the time.
I am hoping to have this chapter finished, printed, and submitted within the next six or seven hours.
The biggest problem with EndNote is actually that it doesn’t use Ibid well.
When footnotes count towards your word total, you don’t want it repeating the whole title of a book or article in every single one.
or you could be a proper academic and use Latex with bibtex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX).
Latex is for scientists.