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In article <01HJ4FDQUT5C935PV0@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> Wendy Heller <WHELLER@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> writes:
>Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 13:57:00 EDT
>From: Wendy Heller <WHELLER@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>
>Subject: Re: "author, year, and the first several words" citations

>Regarding the short "second citation" issue:  I am now in the process
>of following this same suggestion--that is setting up a separate style
>for the second citation using a formerly unused field. I have assinged
>the second short title to the "Label" field, and am quite happily
>pasting away; sure, it would be nice to have this all done "automatically"
>but this is certainly a reasonable solution.  The only problem that I can
>see is that the draft has to be pretty well settled before you know
>which will be the first reference. In any case, I am grateful
>for all suggestions.

This seems like a really good solution to me--but as your message suggests, 
it's one that should certainly be automated by EndNote itself, not by its 
users.

In fact, one can imagine the program "figuring out" a suitable short title 
(anything before a colon, say), and using the user's field only if present. 
That way, for most purposes, one could just leave it blank, esp. during the 
composition phase, when no one (ok, few people) want to be thinking about the 
ins-and-outs of the software.

    John N
    jgn+@osu.edu