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One book, multiple page references.
Author: Allan Jones    Posted: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:56:32 +0000
My query is one that I feel sure other people must have asked already, possibly several times, but I have not seen any discussion of it; so here goes. Suppose I have a book by Smith. On p.10 Smith says something that seems to me highly significant, and which I think I will probably want to cite. So I make a new Endnote reference for it. In the 'pages' field I put '10', and in the 'Notes' field I put some notes about what is said on p. 10. However, Smith also says things that are highly sihnificant on pages 15, 20 and 30 that are very diferent, but which I may well want to cite independently of each other. Now, I could create a new reference for each of these, which would repeat a lot of the information, but would at least keep these significant pages as separate references, which probably reflects how I will use them. Now, this seems inefficient to me. It means that I have to repeat a lot of information, and if I have got some of it wrong (say, the publisher's name) I will have to correct it many times. What I really want to be able to do is to associate with a single book many page references (or maybe chapters), each with its own notes. There must surely be a trick for doing this. I'm using Endnote 5. Thanks Allan Jones

Re: One book, multiple page references.
Author: Francesco Dell'Orso    Posted: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 13:05:15 +0100
At 03:56 PM 12/05/2001 +0000, you wrote: > >My query is one that I feel sure other people must have asked already, >possibly several times, but I have not seen any discussion of it; so here >goes. > >Suppose I have a book by Smith. On p.10 Smith says something that seems to >me highly significant, and which I think I will probably want to cite. So >I make a new Endnote reference for it. In the 'pages' field I put '10', >and in the 'Notes' field I put some notes about what is said on p. 10. > >However, Smith also says things that are highly sihnificant on pages 15, >20 and 30 that are very diferent, but which I may well want to cite >independently of each other. Now, I could create a new reference for each >of these, which would repeat a lot of the information, but would at least >keep these significant pages as separate references, which probably >reflects how I will use them. > >Now, this seems inefficient to me. It means that I have to repeat a lot of >information, and if I have got some of it wrong (say, the publisher's >name) I will have to correct it many times. > >What I really want to be able to do is to associate with a single book >many page references (or maybe chapters), each with its own notes. There >must surely be a trick for doing this. I'm using Endnote 5. > >Thanks > >Allan Jones My two cents : The new "Notes" feature in the EndNote 5 MS-WORD CWYW module would allow you to attach a different text to any normalized and steady citation. But this is a poor surrogate for what you, quite legitimately --if I may say-- ask (first : it is not part of a database, but it belongs to the document). A so-called "notecard" feature would fits you better : other BFS packages like Biblioscape, Papyrus (and perhaps next Library Master version) offer it. Yours FDO Francesco Dell'Orso Perugia (Italy) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: One book, multiple page references.
Author: Duncan Branley    Posted: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:01:06 +0000
I'd keep all your notes of interesting page sequences in the notes field with whatever notes you want to make at that point in the one reference. Then cite Smith at various points in your text, format the text and then select Edit Citations from the EndNote toolbar, menu or right-click (presuming you're using it with Word and on a PC) - then you'll see that you can insert page numbers for the particular citation as well as prefix and suffix text. You can also do this manually. See pp 200-206 in the manual "Customizing Individual Citations" for further info. Duncan =================================================== Duncan Branley /> Applications Officer, Information Services Goldsmiths' College, University of London New Cross, LONDON SE14 6NW Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7708 Fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7556 ===================================================

Re: One book, multiple page references.
Author: Peter Mayer    Posted: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:05:12 +1030
On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 Allan Jones wrote: >What I really want to be able to do is to associate with a single book >many page references (or maybe chapters), each with its own notes. There >must surely be a trick for doing this. I'm using Endnote 5. What I've done for many version of Endnote, Allan, is to use the Abstract field to keep my notes on sources. I put in quotes (with page references), notes, comments etc. I seem to recollect that one can put up to 32k of notes, certainly, I've yet to run out of space. Peter Mayer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Mayer | /> Politics Department | University of Adelaide | 'phone:+61.8 8303 5606/5610 Adelaide, SA 5005 | FAX: (+61.8) 8303 3446 AUSTRALIA | ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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