RE: Multiple authors, multiple sites

If I understand your problem correctly, then the solution is actually
pretty simple. Both of you need to do the following 2 
things:

1. Turn off Cite While You Write (so that when you insert references,
all you insert is unformatted citations).

2. Change your EndNote preferences so that your temporary citations
include accession numbers instead of record numbers. Unlike record
numbers, which are assigned arbitrarily by EndNote when you import a
reference, the accession number comes with the reference when you import
it from a database. Thus, references to the same article always have the
same accession number, even if the references are in 2 different
libraries. 

If you do those things, then it won't matter which version of EndNote
you use or which library you're working with: as long as the references
you need are in your library at the time you format your reference list,
EndNote will recognize which temporary citation goes with which
reference.

I should note that this is not a perfect solution, because some
databases don't assign accession numbers to references, and because
references entered by hand don't have accession numbers (unless you
assign them yourself). Nonetheless, I hope it helps.

--Steve Palmer 


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From: [email protected] on behalf of
Monica.Barratt[[email protected]]
Sent: Thu 2/21/2008 3:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Multiple authors, multiple sites


I would also like a solution to this problem. It became more difficult
for me when my co-author was using Endnote 7 and I am using Endnote X1.
The only way to do it was for her to give her library to me, I merged it
in with a copy of mine, then I had to manually link her refs to the new
ref numbers in the merged library.

Not very efficient but it did the job. Would be great if some solution
could be worked out as I'm sure this happens a lot.

monica

Monica Barratt, PhD Student
National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne) Unit 7, 19-35 Gertrude St,
Fitzroy VIC 3065
03 9412 9902 | 0407 778 938
http://db.ndri.curtin.edu.au/staff.asp?persid=650
http://www.ndri.curtin.edu.au/drugsonforums/


On 21/02/2008, David.Graham <David.Graham> wrote:
> I've trawled through the FAQ archive, and there doesn't seem to have 
> been a final resolution of the problem of keeping references coherent

> when multiple authors are co-writing, from different sites and with 
> their own end-note libraries.  I'm using Endnote X - has a solution 
> arrived or are we still at the work-around stage (currently we're just

> dumping the referencing onto a single author for each paper!)
>
>  Cheers
>
>  Dave Graham
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