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In article <01HINKU4T6Y899DXPR@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>, Wendy Heller
<WHELLER@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> wrote:

> I am using Endnote 1.3 with plug-in module for Word 5.1 and am
> in the final (!) stages of a dissertation. I have used this primarily
> to keep track of my many sources, and have been inserting the encoded
> citations into my footnoes as a go along just to keep track of everything.
> I am now at the point where I would like to format the individual chapters-
> I am less concerned with the bibliography at present, and would like
> to use a full citation for the first mention of a source, and then
> use abbreviated (author, short title, date) for subsequent listings.
> 
> My question is whether anyone has any advice as to the best strategy
> to do this. Should I paste in the full-citations for the initial reference
> "by hanb
> ," then formatting the paper with abbreviated in text citations
> for the remainder? Is there some knack for handling footnotes that
> I am missing?

As far as I am concerned, the main (and almost fatal!) flaw of EndNote is
that this particular format (for a humanities diss, right?) is not
supported. I know that it would be a little bit of a programming pain, but
I still find it annoying that one has to emply various work-arounds. The
one you mention is one possibility. (I've not tried it.) Other
possibilities include formatting the paper with either long or short
citations and either shrinking all the second&subsequents or expanding the
first citation by hand, respectively. I've tried both, for various short
(<40 pp.) papers and a long MA thesis. Either way, Word occasionally gets
confused and starts changing the reference back to how it was. I sure hope
that Niles gets around to supporting this before I get to the final stages
of *my* diss--and I'd like to see it for other people too.

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Joann Zimmerman                          jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu