Scrivener and EndNote

This video goes through how to use Scrivener and Endnote on Mac OSX for academic paper writing. Particularly citations and formatting of bibliography. Scrivener is available from www.literatureandlatte.com. EndNote is available from www.endnote.com.

And if I can add, Scrivener is, like, the absolute best-of thing for academic writing, ever. Scrivener, plus Evernote, are the best reasons to buy a Mac ever. Period. Of course they all work on Windows now too.

A longer video on Blip, as YouTube does not like extended videos :). This video looks extensively at Scrivener, EndNote, and EverNote all working together for research goodness: http://a15.video2.blip.tv/10410007870685/Maxelsen-UsingScrivenerEndnoteAndEve...

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• writing
• academic
• scrivener
• endnote
• paper
• research

[marijakely]

Thanks a lot for the video. It really helped me to sort out citations in Scrivener.

I just wanted to ask maybe you know which bibliography style in EndNote has superscript numbers in text and reference in the footnotes?

[jigglebent]

@marijakely Hmm... The vagaries of asking questions on Christmas Day.

I think you mean MLA style? MLA can do footnotes or endnotes from memory.

[jonaht777]

thanks!

[jigglebent]

@jonaht777 No worries!

[dc78]

Great instructional video. Is there a better way to sync Scrivener and Endnote?

[jigglebent]

@dc78 Hi there... if you mean a better way to get your citations into Scrivener, and to generate a bibliography and convert your citations to the preferred style, I believe the answer is a classic 'nope'.

There's certainly no cite-while-you-write plugin for Scrivener for EndNote (don't think any of the other citation managers would have one either).

[marijakely]

@jigglebent Well, I mean the appearance of the references in the text when printed. In the video we see the name of the author and the date of the publication in parenthesis like (Brown, 2007). And then the full reference is listed at the end of the document. While I need a style which numbers the references with small superscript numbers and puts the full reference in the footnotes, not in the endnotes. I think, ACS style looks something like that.

Sorry for my English, not a native speaker.:)

[badvegan]

Thank you for this, i was wondering whether i should switch to scrivener from eazypaper as I just write short stuff. I realize now that scrivner +endnote is way too much to learn.

[dc78]

@jigglebent Hi,you are spot on about my question re: cite-while-you-write.

I have been wording from Word & Endnote, and have amassed my reference list. When I 1)bring it into Scrivener and split the sections accordingly, and 2)compile it out along w newer citations like the way you done it in the video, 3)it doesn't detect the old references. It seems like I would have to do this manually in Word post-compiling in Scrivener.

Am I missing the boat here? Is there an easier way around this?-Daryl

[jigglebent]

@kentykit Isn't it interesting - my area almost strictly prohibits footnotes :).

Scrivener's footnotes would seem to work adequately for that purpose from my limited testing - /Format/Footnote, or ctl-cmd-8 to add footnotes.

I think that because you could split the document into scrivenings around your footnotes (e.g. each para with a footnote gets its own scrivening) it might be a little better to manage than Word?