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In article <9404090249.AA07624@possum.murdoch.edu.au> Dr Jim Cummins <cummins@POSSUM.MURDOCH.EDU.AU> writes:

>>Here is a question from John Bealle:
>>
>>>(1) What is the best way to deal with authorless references, that
>>
>>Dear John,
>>
>>The solution to your problem is to keep the title in the "Title" field in
>>your Authorless Book and Article reference types, but in the "Author" field,
>>change the field name to something like "Title for sorting" and put the
>>first few words of the title in this field. This field will be used for
>>sorting purposes only. Now, you need to edit your style. I assume you have
>>created style specifications for your two authorless reference types; in the
>>style, only Title, Year, etc. should be specified, because you do not want
>>the "Author" field to appear in the reference. In the style sorting, the
>>sort order should be Author+Year+Title.

>I always use Anon in the author field.  This is handy as it usually appears
>at the top of the library file.  It's easy enough to edit out of the final
>bibliography.

I want to use up a little bandwidth to second, strongly, Dr. Cummins's 
suggestion here.

The problem with the solution advocated by Niles & Co. is that it means that 
one would have to make an "anonymous" reference types corresponding to all of 
the non-anonymous types. This is a lousy solution, particularly since there is 
such a limited number of concurrent reference types. If I have anonymous 
articles, sections of books, books, etc., etc., creating a new "anonymous" 
type for each one is a major pain.

As the release for a Windows version of Endnote approaches, and hints that 
there might be an upgrade to the DOS/Mac versions, it would be nice to get 
some inkling of what changes/upgrades are in store for this product. I have 
been sorely tempted to switch to a different product.

John N.