How To: Creating Biblios with EndNote and Pages 08
There have been a few posts and replies to posts on using programs like EndNote with Pages 08 to create Biblios.
This is not a completely clean process. To be frank, if you're a student doing this and need to write a lot of research papers you might be better ponying up the extra $70 to get Word, where the 3rd party tools work 100%.
I also don't know how well this works with programs other than EndNote, and I'll assume you've already built your databse.
1- In Pages use the Research Paper template located under Reports. Adjust the style so it matches your professor's requirements.
2- Write the paper and keep EndNote running in the background. When you need to cite a reference, in EndNote select the reference, then go back to Pages and go to the Pages menu, Services, EndNote, Insert Citation. The citation will appear like this: {Darmer, 2004 #5}. Don't worry about the formatting. Use the built-in styles to format the body abd block quotes.
3- When you are done, save the document as both a Pages document and an RTF file. I'd suggest being mostly done at this point--i.e. it's all proofread and just needs the biblio.
4- Open EndNote and go to the Tools menu, Format Paper, and choose Format Paper. This will open up a dialogue box where you will open the RTF file you've saved. It will verify the citations you've cited and create a new RTF file.
5- In Pages open up the newly created RTF file. You'll notice all the nice styles are gone from the styles drawer. To get them back go to the Format Menu in Pages and choose Import Styles and choose the .pages doc you saved in Step 3. This will get back the Cited Works Syle.
6- Go to your cited works section and apply the Cited Works style to auto format it. Make sure the rest of the document looks right. I also had to recreate the headers so you might want to copy that back over, too. Double-checking the formatting is probably the biggest pain of the process. Also, save this new version as a .pages doc, too.
Like I said earlier, if you need to write a lot of research papers you might want to just get the student version of Word. However, if you can't afford it or just plain hate anything with the MS logo on it, you can create biblios in Pages at least with EndNote. If the other citation software work similar to EndNote, you might be able to use these steps.
Also, if someone has a cleaner solution I'd like to hear it.
This is not a completely clean process. To be frank, if you're a student doing this and need to write a lot of research papers you might be better ponying up the extra $70 to get Word, where the 3rd party tools work 100%.
I also don't know how well this works with programs other than EndNote, and I'll assume you've already built your databse.
1- In Pages use the Research Paper template located under Reports. Adjust the style so it matches your professor's requirements.
2- Write the paper and keep EndNote running in the background. When you need to cite a reference, in EndNote select the reference, then go back to Pages and go to the Pages menu, Services, EndNote, Insert Citation. The citation will appear like this: {Darmer, 2004 #5}. Don't worry about the formatting. Use the built-in styles to format the body abd block quotes.
3- When you are done, save the document as both a Pages document and an RTF file. I'd suggest being mostly done at this point--i.e. it's all proofread and just needs the biblio.
4- Open EndNote and go to the Tools menu, Format Paper, and choose Format Paper. This will open up a dialogue box where you will open the RTF file you've saved. It will verify the citations you've cited and create a new RTF file.
5- In Pages open up the newly created RTF file. You'll notice all the nice styles are gone from the styles drawer. To get them back go to the Format Menu in Pages and choose Import Styles and choose the .pages doc you saved in Step 3. This will get back the Cited Works Syle.
6- Go to your cited works section and apply the Cited Works style to auto format it. Make sure the rest of the document looks right. I also had to recreate the headers so you might want to copy that back over, too. Double-checking the formatting is probably the biggest pain of the process. Also, save this new version as a .pages doc, too.
Like I said earlier, if you need to write a lot of research papers you might want to just get the student version of Word. However, if you can't afford it or just plain hate anything with the MS logo on it, you can create biblios in Pages at least with EndNote. If the other citation software work similar to EndNote, you might be able to use these steps.
Also, if someone has a cleaner solution I'd like to hear it.
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