Iain,
You can import into EndNote from a tab-delimited text file, but you have to
do a whole lot of editing and formatting...it's explained in detail in the
documentation, but I've tried it, and I think it's easier overall to just
re-enter the data directly into EndNote. That's extremely easy and fast,
because you are just filling in fields, not having to insert punctuation and
so forth like you do when writing a bibliography by hand.

As to a template for Historical Archaeology, version 3 didn't have one, but
the last time I wrote something for that journal I just used a template that
was similar and then edited it by hand to make it work. It took some
tweaking but it was still easier retyping each and every reference. There
are a number of other templates in EndNotes for other archaeology journals,
but I don't recall offhand whether the one I used as my starting point was
for an archaeology journal or something else. You just have to experiment --
let me know off list if you want more on this. I just received the
announcement about Version 4, so perhaps it includes a template for HA (is
Ronn Michaels listening? perhaps he could persuade ISI ResearchSoft to
include one in the next version!).

Another option is to use that same starting-point template and then
customize your own for HA. The EndNote documentation is quite good about
explaining how to do that, and even though it's time-consuming, you'd then
have the template ready for use anytime. Then of course if you wanted to
offer it to other EndNotes users we'd be most grateful!!

Best,

carol mcdavid

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Stuart" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 12:29 AM
Subject: Bibliographic Databases


> I raised this issue some months ago and was recommended to use End Notes.
>
> Has anyone had any experience importing reference data from Word
documents?
> I have some references in reports that I would like to import and have the
> reports in Word so is there a simple strategy to import references from
word
> to End Notes?
>
> Also is their a style file for Historical Archaeology. There seem to be
> 50000000000 styles but none seem suitable for archaeology.
>
> Iain Stuart
> Principal, Archaeology and Heritage Management
> HLA-Envirosciences Pty. Ltd.