Re: OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
Endnote? http://endnote.com/ On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Steve Rickaby srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk wrote: Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an existing reference list made up of entries in a variety of formats and render a list in which all

Re: OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Grant Hogarth
All I can think of is to do a repetitive search-and-replace for some of this, but most of it would have to be hand-done. Grant On 2/12/2013 1:10 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote: Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an existing reference list made up of entries in a

Re: OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:50 -0800 12/2/13, Robert Lauriston wrote: Endnote? http://endnote.com/ Maybe, Robert, but it requires an Intel Mac, which I currently do not have (waiting for the Mac Pro upgrades, if they ever arrive). -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]

Re: OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
Thanks to everyone who responded to my query, and particularly for Winfried for the Excel idea. I've used Excel before for text processing but for some reason hadn't thought of using it here. Duh! -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]

OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Alan T Litchfield
There are a bunch of systems that will produce formatted output, but none that I know of that are smart enough to understand a random selection of formats and recreate them in format x. No doubt people will chime in with their favourites, some are seemingly better at some formats than others,

OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:50 -0800 12/2/13, Robert Lauriston wrote: >Endnote? > >http://endnote.com/ Maybe, Robert, but it requires an Intel Mac, which I currently do not have (waiting for the Mac Pro upgrades, if they ever arrive). -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]

OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
Thanks to everyone who responded to my query, and particularly for Winfried for the Excel idea. I've used Excel before for text processing but for some reason hadn't thought of using it here. Duh! -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]

OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an existing reference list made up of entries in a variety of formats and render a list in which all references have the same format? Not necessarily in FrameMaker: Word would do. I have, for example, a mix of Art Snoggins

Re: OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-12 Thread Alan T Litchfield
There are a bunch of systems that will produce formatted output, but none that I know of that are smart enough to understand a random selection of formats and recreate them in format x. No doubt people will chime in with their favourites, some are seemingly better at some formats than others,

OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-12 Thread Steve Rickaby
Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an existing reference list made up of entries in a variety of formats and render a list in which all references have the same format? Not necessarily in FrameMaker: Word would do. I have, for example, a mix of Art Snoggins

OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
Endnote? http://endnote.com/ On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an > existing reference list made up of entries in a variety of formats and render > a list in which all references have the same format?

OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-12 Thread Grant Hogarth
All I can think of is to do a repetitive search-and-replace for some of this, but most of it would have to be hand-done. Grant On 2/12/2013 1:10 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an > existing reference list made up of entries in a