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On Kan wrote:

>When I download some ref. from Medline, a substantial amount of them
>contains odd surnames e.g. D'Andrea, Van Der Burge, Van Der Sand,
>S'afari.
>How could I avoid messing up the author list in the endnote library
>file with references like these?

It depends on the format of the author names in the downloaded file.
Obviously, it's hard for EndLink to interpret if there's not a lot of hints
given in the file.  For instance, if it says

Van-Der-Burge-A-R; Van-Der-Sand-F-W; D'-Andrea-P-C

We will have a pretty hard time figuring out which are the last names and
which are the initials.  This problem is compounded by the need to handle
full first names and other delimiters such as commas for other databases.

EndLink 1.1.6 (1.1.7 on the PC) improves our algorithm for doing this, and
it's a free upgrade to all registered users, so please let me know if you
need it, and include your EndNote serial number.

We are working on a new version of EndLink which should be out next spring.
That will allow users to specify more information about the database
display, which should improve our author name import.


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