RE: AMA Numeric In-Text Citation Format and MSWord
<DHAENENS <at> isiresearchsoft.com>
2007-11-06 01:34:21 GMT
What it looks like to me is that you are confusing a temporary citation with a final citation.
On importing any citation from RM into Word, a temporary link is made between the reference record in RM and
the 'stakeholder' (=temporary citation) in Word. That stakeholder (or temporary citation) is of the
type {Rogers, 2005 2809 /id; Jones, 2000 20 /id}.
In this case, it tells us to look for the references with author=Rogers&pubyear=2005&RefID=2809 and author=Jones&pubyear=2000&RefID=20.
As long as you're editing the document and adding references, you should keep doing this (it's temporary,
remember). [I even type the temporary citations manually as this goes far faster when getting some experience]
On finishing the document, all you have to do is choose 'Generate bibliography' in the RefMan-menu (Extra
à RM). In the popup you can choose your style, your lay-out and a bunch of other things (amongst them the
possibility to omit authors or pubyears in some in-text-citations). In the same popup, choose the style
that uses a numeric bibliography (e.g. AMA numeric format) to use numbers. The temporary citations (like
referred to in the previous paragraph) will automatically be replaced by a number.
You can generate your bibliography on any occasion, but I tend to do so once in writing a paper (right at the
end, after first personal review). I had some awry experiences on using the function (generate
bibliography) to often. Things like your word document closing without asking/saving, you computer
crashing because word-outlook uses to much memory,...
Check your document in the end for any mistakes. You can easily browse amongst the references in the Edit
citations... menu under Extra à RefMan.
When you decide your paper is finished, I suggest you take a copy (to use for any future editing) and you erase
all your field codes. Until you do so, a temporary RM-database is stored within the word-document itself.
That means all data (such as abstract, author affiliations, ...; including data you don't actually need)
is saved in the background of your word-document, making it larger than it should be. There could also be
all sorts of nasty things happening to your doc when you send it to someone else for review.
Field codes (in the background) can be removed by choosing 'Remove field codes' in the RM-menu. When you do
this, every link with RM is broken and all that remains is plain text! That's why you should always take a
copy for any future reference editing (for the field codes remain in place in that document).
Hope this helps a bit,
Thomas
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