We live, you might have noticed, in an electronic age, right? So why, for heaven’s sake, don’t journals provide either a named Endnote or similar style for their journals? Springer in particular are very bad at this – they give relatively vague and ambiguous instructions via examples, but fail to say what style this is in the Endnote library (or even what editorial style guide to follow here, like Chicago or Harvard, etc.). And is it too much to ask them to actually write a style for Endnote? Or for that matter, for any bibliography manager?
Grumble, grumble, grumble…
Go to the Springer site. Type “endnotes” into the search box. Hit enter and under “Webpages” you will get 53 (mostly repetitive results).
PS What is a “named Endnote”?
Springer have their own citation style; they do provide a BibTeX style file in their LaTeX macro package (find it here). Then you can use this Endnote converter here. Hope this helps
Or, if SI’s suggested converter doesn’t yield satisfactory results, you could export your bibliography from Endnote as BibTeX, and get a LaTeX user (like me) to run it through BibTeX and send you the RTF output …
Funny, Chris. Funny…
Thanks for the hints, Veronica. You almost need to be named as coauthor on some of these papers…
“Named Endnote style“
Okay I did that and found nada. I went to the link Stefan gave and found nada. Obviously I am suffering some pathological condition that prevents me from seeing either Endnote styles or BibTeX styles.
What’s called “LaTeX macro package” is a .zip archive containing a .bst file, among others. However, I looked again, that converter will be useless for this, unfortunately (it only converts databases, not styles). Sorry
For what matters, that .bst style produces output quite unlike what I’ve seen in several Springer journals, which is odd….
See
springer.com/authors?SGWID=0-111-7-709814-0
which includes the following information:
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
There is also a “Contact for Journal Authors” page.
Above “Select a discipline” on the http://www.springer.com/authors?SGWID=0-111-7-709814-0
page, click on “Contact for Journal Authors” and you will get a query form. “Under Please choose your subject:” click on the arrow and choose “Manuscript Guidelines” and then submit your question in the box under “Your question.”