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Author: Gaye Wilson    Posted: 04/10/2000 06:54:11 GDT
I am trying to format a bibliography from a list of references. I am using Endnote 4 and Word 97 on a PC. Every time I try to get the bibliography formatted, it returns many, and I mean many, "mismatched citations". I mean, I ask it to format 2 references, and it tells me there are 49 mismatched citations! I've checked for viruses, I've rebooted, I cut and pasted into another document, but the result is the same. I pulled out all the year 2000 references, and put them into a new bibliography, and then just used that one, but it is still bringing up citations that don't exist on the the database. ANy ideas on what is happening here? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gaye Wilson Administrative Officer (Web and Publications) School of Business Room 434, Merewether Building H04 Ph. 9351 4677, Fax. 9351 6638 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

RE: mismatching citations
Author: Will Hughes    Posted: 05/10/2000 09:41:33 GDT
This one has happened to me a few times. My problem was that the marker for in text citations (usually []) was also being used in the document in references to legal cases which also used square brackets. It is easy to fix, edit the preferences in Endnote to use an alternative citation marker, such as {}. Regards Will > -----Original Message----- > From: > Behalf Of Gaye Wilson > Sent: 04 October 2000 06:54 > To: > Subject: mismatching citations > > > > I am trying to format a bibliography from a list of references. I am > using Endnote 4 and Word 97 on a PC. > > Every time I try to get the bibliography formatted, it returns many, > and I mean many, "mismatched citations". I mean, I ask it to > format 2 references, and it tells me there are 49 mismatched > citations! > > I've checked for viruses, I've rebooted, I cut and pasted into another > document, but the result is the same. > > I pulled out all the year 2000 references, and put them into a new > bibliography, and then just used that one, but it is still bringing up > citations that don't exist on the the database. > > ANy ideas on what is happening here? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Gaye Wilson > Administrative Officer (Web and Publications) > School of Business > Room 434, Merewether Building H04 > Ph. 9351 4677, Fax. 9351 6638 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >

Re: mismatching citations
Author: Stephen Eyles    Posted: 05/10/2000 13:43:27 GDT
My guess would be that you use whatever your temporary citation markers are, probably [ and ], to enclose things which aren't real citations. Either (a) ignore it if you really want to use square brackets in the article or (b) change your temporary citation marker in EndNote to something you are not using in the main text, e.g. and {} This should fix your problem. Steve ------------------------------------------------ Stephen J. Eyles, D. Phil. Director, Mass Spectrometry & Molecular Weight Determination Facility University of Massachusetts Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering Amherst MA 01003 USA Tel: 413-577-1528 Fax: 413-577-1510 ------------------------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:54:11 +1000 > From: "Gaye Wilson" > Subject: mismatching citations > > I am trying to format a bibliography from a list of references. I am > using Endnote 4 and Word 97 on a PC. > > Every time I try to get the bibliography formatted, it returns many, > and I mean many, "mismatched citations". I mean, I ask it to > format 2 references, and it tells me there are 49 mismatched > citations! > > I've checked for viruses, I've rebooted, I cut and pasted into another > document, but the result is the same. > > I pulled out all the year 2000 references, and put them into a new > bibliography, and then just used that one, but it is still bringing up > citations that don't exist on the the database. > > ANy ideas on what is happening here? >

Re: mismatching citations
Author: John Beech    Posted: 05/10/2000 14:12:27 GDT
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:54:11 +1000 > From: "Gaye Wilson" > Subject: mismatching citations > > I am trying to format a bibliography from a list of references. I am > using Endnote 4 and Word 97 on a PC. > > Every time I try to get the bibliography formatted, it returns many, > and I mean many, "mismatched citations". I mean, I ask it to > format 2 references, and it tells me there are 49 mismatched > citations! > I had a similar problem. It was caused by using square brackets as the delimiters for temporary citations in the text I was working on, and also using square brackets to add implied words into quotes in my text. EndNote then read the interjected text as a temporary reference, obviously failed to find a matching reference in the database, and reported each occurrence as a mis-match. The easy solution was to change the temporary citation delimiters to 'squiggly' brackets - and {} - which I never use in the text I am producing. John Beech Coventry Business School UK

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