After much prevaricating I’ve downloaded Scrivener. Why? Because everyone told me I should, and I was convinced after watching the demo video (10 minutes well spent). For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s a writing tool that makes long writing projects easier to manage. One thing that I wasn’t sure of when I downloaded it was how it links with EndNote, my citation management tool of choice.
A brief look around the Internet and I realised it does. I then realised I needed to know a bit more about EndNote to make that useful. I sent this to Dubber earlier, then realised it might be of wider interest. So, as sharing is caring, here’s my Scrivener + End Note cribsheet:
Overview
Once you have linked Scrivener and EndNote, cmd+Y will bring up EndNote’s library, from where you can copy & paste or drag and drop content into Scrivener. This will use the EndNote markup which looks a bit like this: {Hickman, 2010 #199@102-103}.
How to Link Scrivener to EndNote
Go to Scrivener > preferences > general and tell it where your EndNote application is.
EndNote Mark Up
Page numbers
When you place a citation you can add page numbers by typing @the page numbers before the closing } bracket.
e.g. like {Hickman, 2010 #199@102-103} = (Hickman, 2010 pp. 102-103)Date only
To omit author name just leave the comma but delete the author name:
{, 2010 #199@102-103} = (2010 pp. 102-103)
With annotations
To prefix the citation use a backslash before the start of the EndNote data:
{e.g. \Hickman, 2010 #199} = (e.g. Hickman, 2010)To suffix the citation, use `, after the EndNote data:
{Hickman, 2010 #199`, his emphasis} = (Hickman, 2010, his emphasis)
Importing drafts from Word
When importing documents from MS Word, it is best to first remove the citation formatting and revert back to EndNote mark up. That allows you to freely edit and remove citations and will ensure that your bibliography is correct when you output it later on.
Tools > Endnote > Unformat citation(s)
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Update, August 2011
I spotted this video (by YouTube user Jigglebent), which takes you through all of the items discussed here. May be useful to watch that and then use the notes for reference:
I’ve also made an A4 PDF to print out and pin up over my desk, which might be of use:
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A new bibliography style
I’ve never been happy with the default list of bibliography styles. In particular the Harvard and Author-Date styles don’t seem to want to display page numbers in citations, and the bibliography style for online materials seems a bit odd.
This bibliography style is my current Harvard variant, based on BCU’s Harvard referencing guidance for students.
By Liang March 5, 2011 - 4:55 am
Thank you! It’s useful!
By Jon Hickman March 5, 2011 - 12:26 pm
thanks
By David Jarman April 4, 2011 - 5:48 pm
By Jake Grimley August 12, 2011 - 10:02 am
What’s Srivener? Would it write proposals for me without me needing to engage my brain?[please say yes]
By Jon Hickman August 12, 2011 - 10:57 am
Hi Jake.A lot of my academic pals use it for writing long pieces of work (articles, theses, books). Other folk use it for writing novels and screenplays.You know what? It might be useful for your longer proposals simply because it breaks text into (or rather allows you to break text into) chunks. So if you wanted to take an modular approach to proposal writing you could gather all the stubs of things you normally write, generate a template and then use Scrivener as a paste boat to move stuff about.
By Jake Grimley August 12, 2011 - 11:09 am
Our proposals are often longer than my final-year dissertation, so I guess they’d fit the bill for long pieces of work.The ability to pull together an outline out of chunks/modules would be very helpful. That’s exactly what we do / need to do. (all those case studies and appendices) Especially if you can share modules without binding them up within a single document.Suspect I would miss the page layout / image treatment / inline spreadsheets from Pages though…Guess I should just download it and take a look.CheersJ
By Jon Hickman August 12, 2011 - 11:29 am
Scrivener has some formatting options within it, but a lot of people would use a workflow which involves moving the text into a page layout programme at the end. For example I have to take academic papers from Scrivener into Word to get my referencing compiled Spend some time with the formatting options in there though and you’ll get something nice from it.
By Graham August 20, 2011 - 11:16 pm
Hi JonIs there a standard Havard template in Scrivener?
By Jon Hickman August 21, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Do you mean in Endnote?At the top left of the Endnote window, it tells you your current style:https://skitch.com/jonhickman/f18n1/my-endnote-library.enlThat drop box allows you to go to the full library of styleshttps://skitch.com/jonhickman/f18nt/systemAs for Scrivener…Well Scrivener, AFAIK doesn’t manage the references for you, so the templates only really help give you a framework for the paper – you still need to hook in some bibliographic software (as I do) or do your referencing long hand into the paper.Scrivener has a template for a few different styles of academic paper, but really they just form a boilerplate that reminds you to put things in (I think the Chicago one manages footnote based citation?).I tend to use blank documents and then drop my headings in as I structure the paper. Hope that helps
By geriod November 14, 2011 - 3:18 pm
By E Ronald February 13, 2012 - 4:45 pm
Thanks for posting this! I’m using Scrivener at the moment for my dissertation, and this page has been a great resource in trying to corral all my citations.
By Jon Hickman February 14, 2012 - 12:28 pm
No problems, glad to be able to help
By David Jarman February 14, 2012 - 12:58 pm
Good to see this Scrivener + EndNote is working well for folk.I hope this doesn’t come across as trolling… but without access to a local copy of EndNote I’ve been using Sente as my Scrivener citation manager. Seems to be going ok, though taking a while to get everything looking as I’d like.It’s Mac only and is here: http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/site/SenteForMac.html if you’d like to investigate.
By Jon Hickman February 14, 2012 - 1:02 pm
Nae bother, the comments are yours…