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Author:    Posted: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:16:09 -0500
If you include URLs in your citations, and you are using a two-column style, then the URLs come out looking awful, because the lines are all too long. Is there a way to convince Word to break an EndNote-created URL at a slash character without inserting extra hyphens that would make the hyperlink invalid? I tried to manually edit the citations, but I found that I would have to change each hyperlink to normal text, one at a time. With a lot of citations, this gets very tedious, and of course, once you have done it, you can't let EndNote reformat the bibliography again. I would have thought this a common enough problem, but I searched the EndNote archives and couldn't find any discussion on this. Any suggestions?

Long URLs in references
Author: Maggie Johnston RRes-Roth    Posted: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 14:13:34 -0500
Rather than edit the citations why not replace each URL to be cited, in your library, with a short URL. You simply paste the long URL into a box in either of the services below and you will be given a short URL. TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/ or DigBig http://www.digbig.com/ Admittedly it's still going to be a bit tedious. Maggie Johnston Library Rothamsted Research Harpenden Herts AL5 2JQ UK Tel: +44 (0)1582 763133 x2318 Fax: +44 (0)1582 760981 E-mail: /> WWW: http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/ =============================================== Rothamsted Research is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England under the registration number 2393175 and a not for profit charity number 802038. >> -----Original Message----- Subject: endnote-interest-digest V1 #2186 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:16:09 -0500 From: /> Subject: long URLs in references If you include URLs in your citations, and you are using a two-column style, then the URLs come out looking awful, because the lines are all too long. Is there a way to convince Word to break an EndNote-created URL at a slash character without inserting extra hyphens that would make the hyperlink invalid? I tried to manually edit the citations, but I found that I would have to change each hyperlink to normal text, one at a time. With a lot of citations, this gets very tedious, and of course, once you have done it, you can't let EndNote reformat the bibliography again. I would have thought this a common enough problem, but I searched the EndNote archives and couldn't find any discussion on this. Any suggestions? <<

Re: Long URLs in references
Author: Sameer Badarudeen    Posted: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 19:12:05 -0500
Relying on tinyurl and digbig could be a problem, we dont know how long these start-ups may last. I have had occations where I found the original website in the url not existing anymore and had to find the citation elsewhere by googling keywords from the url in the original citation. So I think it serves to have the "real" url in the citation. Sameer On 3/7/07, RRes-Roth <maggie.johnston> wrote: Rather than edit the citations why not replace each URL to be cited, in your library, with a short URL. You simply paste the long URL into a box in either of the services below and you will be given a short URL. TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/ or DigBig http://www.digbig.com/ Admittedly it's still going to be a bit tedious. Maggie Johnston Library Rothamsted Research Harpenden Herts AL5 2JQ UK Tel: +44 (0)1582 763133 x2318 Fax: +44 (0)1582 760981 E-mail: /> WWW: http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/ =============================================== Rothamsted Research is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England under the registration number 2393175 and a not for profit charity number 802038. >> -----Original Message----- Subject: endnote-interest-digest V1 #2186 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:16:09 -0500 From: /> Subject: long URLs in references If you include URLs in your citations, and you are using a two-column style, then the URLs come out looking awful, because the lines are all too long. Is there a way to convince Word to break an EndNote-created URL at a slash character without inserting extra hyphens that would make the hyperlink invalid? I tried to manually edit the citations, but I found that I would have to change each hyperlink to normal text, one at a time. With a lot of citations, this gets very tedious, and of course, once you have done it, you can't let EndNote reformat the bibliography again. I would have thought this a common enough problem, but I searched the EndNote archives and couldn't find any discussion on this. Any suggestions? <<

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