ENDNOTE V7 WME/W2K/XP

by EndNote

Product Features

• Search bibliographic databases on the internet
• Organized references and images in a snap

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• ASIN: B0000AFX1T
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 15, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,473 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #55 in Software > Business & Office > Document Management > Print Publishing

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Endnote 7, the world's most popular bibliographic software with over a million users, delivers subject bibliographies, flexible image handling and connectivity to explore and mobilize reference collections.

Save steps creating a bibliography with topic headings using Endnote 7's new Subject Bibliography. For example, simply select a field such as ÒauthorÓ to view the finished bibliography organized by author headings. Control the look of your subject bibliography by selecting your favorite output style and choosing a sort order and numbering scheme for the references.

Take advantage of Endnote 7's new ability to insert a figure or table anywhere in a Microsoft Word document. You can place figures and tables within the text, or create figure and table lists at the end of your document. Now Endnote 7 uses the chart/table reference type to handle tables separately from figures. And there are new output style settings to specify the caption location (above or below) for your figure or table.

Create bibliographies using StarOffice, OpenOffice, AppleWorks, FrameMaker and more. Endnote 7 scans RTF documents containing temporary Endnote 7 citations and creates a bibliography instantly. You can copy selected references from an Endnote 7 library reference list and paste temporary citations into your document. Endnote 7's RTF document scan feature provides a status report on unmatched citations and lets you choose any of over 1,000 output styles to create the final bibliography.

Explore new ways to use your Endnote 7 references. With your Palm handheld devic, access your references anywhere, anytime. Search, edit and beam references then use the HotSync function to back up your Endnote 7 library to the desktop. Locate the full text of articles faster by using OpenURL links to connect to your institution's online library resources. Export references in XML format for posting files to the Web and using with other XML-compatible software. Move Endnote 7 reference to data visualization toolsÑexplore research literature visually.

Discover new and updated content files. Endnote 7 7 expands the ways to collect data from a wide variety of online resources and to publish manuscripts. Edit standard import filters (e.g., RIS, tab delimited, ISI CE) to move data between applications easily. You'll find new and updated content filesÑ350 connection files, 1000 output styles, as well as import filters and manuscript templates.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must for the student, October 13, 2003

By 

Jeff Holland (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ENDNOTE V7 WME/W2K/XP (CD-ROM)

(WinXP user using MS OfficeXP):
Endnote has saved me countless hours of entering and arranging bibliographic entries, making this part of term paper, thesis, and even publication writing almost trivial. Not only can you instantly search and cite publications while writing, specifying almost any possible citation and reference style, but you can also download all your reference information, including abstracts over the internet. I may spend a half an hour total collecting, citing, and putting in professional bibliographic format, say, 20 citations for a term paper. The other students who don't use this program may waste half a day doing this. If you are a graduate student (or academic professional), this program is worth its weight in gold. And even though the small journal I am submitting to is not in Endnote's thousands of predefined output styles, I was able to easily customize my own output style for this journal.

That being said, I have one major caveat about version 7: I upgraded to 7.0 from version 5 because I thought it would offer me a similar revolution for organizing figures and tables that it did for bibliographies--something I have to toil over in my thesis. The aspects that make EndNote great for references, however, are not developed for figres and tables. (1)Endnote offers almost endless citation and output styles for references;(2) edit your citations in Endnote, and when you update your references in your paper, it edits itself. None of these happen with figures.
(1)You cannot specify styles for figues--the only choice you have is caption on top or bottom, and figures at end of paragraph or end of paper. Does your journal require you to refer to figure abbreviated as Fig.? then you're out of luck. What if your journal wants a list of figure captions separate from the figures, with no captions on the figure? You are also out of luck.
(2)What if you need to edit your figure after using it in the paper? Should be easy, right, just edit it in endnote and refresh the figures on you paper, just like with references? No. You have to find every reference to that figure in your paper, delete it, and then then refer to the new edited figure. Maybe not a problem for a small paper, but for a thesis, where there are references to a figure thoughout the paper, this is a royal pain in the behind.
I have talked to tech support at Endnote (very nice and helpful people, by the way), and they have confirmed that there is no way around these problems. They refunded me for my upgrade to Endnote 7, since my already purchased version 5 did what I needed.
The thing is, MS Word has its own simplified reference manager for figures using field codes (look it up in help). Endnote 7 just uses uses this already built-in function of Word, without adding any benefits. In fact, at least in Word, you can edit your figures, and if you get really creative with field codes, you can circumvent some of the style problems I mentioned above.

So, by all means, get EndNote to manage your references. Don't use it yet for your figures and tables, until a later version when EndNote has made it more flexible and user friendly. Instead, learn how to use field codes in Word, and email EndNote's suggestions box to make these necessary changes. The people working there are nice and capable of making these changes.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Take it for a test drive - I did and glad of it!, April 7, 2004

By A Customer

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This review is from: ENDNOTE V7 WME/W2K/XP (CD-ROM)

HOW USED: Typical deliverables for my small science consulting company are reports to clients and State and Federal regulators. These reports typically cite a wide variety of information sources, including personal telephone communications, data records, journal articles, government guidance documents, letters, and memorandum. As a consequence, any software program that allows management and insertion of citations into MS WORD 2003 reports (XP Pro) in our format shaves time off report preparation and lowers costs to our clients.

REVIEW: After several hours developing customized input and output formats, I can report that EndNote does a fabulous job. It workied seamlessly with MS WORD 2003 to insert citations and a bibliography into several reports. Reference selection for insertion is simple and intuitive using the EndNote tool bar in MS WORD.

TESTING: I evaluated EndNote before purchased the software. I went to the EndNote web site [http://www.endnote.com/] and downloaded the FREE DEMO version of EndNote. I spent a few hours over the course of a week playing with the program. Although not intuitively obvious in operation, I found the EndNote Demo simpler to operate and, after formating input and outputs, a pleasure to use in comparison to like-featured products of competitors. The EndNote Demo is not supposed to be any different than the real thing - except that you only get to use it for a 30 day trial period. Even so, when problems arose, I E-mailed tech support on two separate occasions while working with the Demo for advice on how to handle my business formating needs. To their credit, I got fast and very useful answers to my questions (kudos). In contrast, I had previously spent several fruitless days toying with one of EndNotes competitor programs (Biblioscape [http://www.biblioscape.com/biblioscape.htm]),which you can also download for a free test drive. I had many more problems running the Biblioscape program. It crashed 8 times in one hour. I never was able to format either input or output before running out of uses (the Biblioscape test drive allows you to use the program 30 times before it requires purchase or exit). Because the program crashed so often, that I never was able to really get into the meat of this less-expensive program, which others seemed to rate highly. All is well though, EndNote works very well indeed.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beware Endnote 8, July 14, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: ENDNOTE V7 WME/W2K/XP (CD-ROM)

I just wanted to put here a warning that the new version of Endnote (8.0) is out (7/04) and it is very buggy, - so if you are going to buy it, get version 7.0 if at all possible!