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Netbook Board (Del Msg) Title: found way of managing footnotes Posted By: mike park E-mail: docpark@hotmail.com Date: 11/05/2000 at 15:41:20 Recent Posts • revo and netbook sync of • Netbook Headphone Socket • One corollary to the pere • Psions now freeze when us • keyboard faulty? • Now also POP connection p • So what replaces a 5mx? • New program - IconPatcher • TimeLog • portable scanning solutio More ...     Message: I am a medical researcher who writes a papers with a lot of references at the end. One of the problems with the EPOC Word program is lack of autonumbered end-noting and footnoting. I have found a work-around, and it actually works better that MS Word in the sense that many medical journals insist on electronic submissions to be basically text files without foot/endnoting, so everything has to be typed out anyway. I have set up a Data file with a single data field labeled " " of the text field type with 250 characters. This allows the references to be viewed without a space wasting label field. My references are then input or imported from previously created bibliographies, eg: Biggle FS, Hodown QT, Bigbotham OK. Systemic 4-323KX expression in the non-zipped wombat model of coronary atherosclerosis. Obscurity 1993;23:14-23. As you write your paper in Word, you slip in the reference as "[number]" which is what the journals want any way, and you place that number in front of the Data entry corresponding to that reference. eg, In Word: ....In 1993, Biggle and associates in their landmark paper on the wombat model of coronary atherosclerosis [8], remarked... In Data: 8. Biggle FS, Hodown QT, Bigbotham OK. Systemic 4-323KX expression in the non-zipped wombat model of coronary atherosclerosis. Obscurity 1993;23:14-23. Then you sort the database. If you revise the paper, and the numbering gets redone, it's simply a matter of renumbering the paper first and then the references, then resort. When you're ready to make a final draft and insert your references, your Export as text from Data. All the references come out in a text file with quotation limiting marks. You can then import this into your paper in Word and do a find and replace of all the quotation marks. It results in a formatted, numbered endnote section. Not the greatest, but until they update EPOC OS to do autonumbering, the most workable solution. Is this message offensive or in violation of this board's policies? If so report it by clicking here.

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