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Thanks for every ones input. I really appreciate it<br>
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I have actually been editing a copy of the IEEEtran.bst since I
understood this was the one I should be using, but also that my
formatting was wrong.<br>
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So I edited that to remove the notes (though not quite clear on the
best place to do that). However I have also been told that my
formatting is wrong. I should not include volume and pages and for
authors >= 2 I should use etal. For this reason I have been editing
a copy of IEEEtran.bst to turn on etal and set the threshold for it and
to remove volume, number, page etc. However I have found that endnote
also puts some other things in page. I have a couple of documents have
description field and this ends up in bibtex page field and so this is
lost.<br>
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I am not experienced in editing bst files. I shall read the header
text a bit more and try to understand in more detail. However my first
attempt to remove page still left the prefix p or pp!!<br>
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Thanks again for all your help.<br>
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I think I am winning, I am just a bit surprised that with all these
templates and automation there is still so much learning and editing to
do.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Stefan Löffler wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Hi,
Am 2010-07-06 12:36, schrieb Andrew Hardy:
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<pre wrap="">Can any one possibly help me with this, I am new to texworks.
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Welcome to TeXworks, then :).
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<pre wrap="">When I generate bibtex from endnote a lot of my references include a
lot of content in the note field (not added by me) and this is
presented in the bibtex.
Even if I set \bibliographystyle{plain} in latex the generated bbl and
the refs appearing in the pdf generated by texworks show all these
notes. I am told this is unacceptable and I must remove it, but I
have spent quite a long time so far trying to do this, but to no avail.
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As Alain already pointed out, this is probably an issue with the bibtex
exporter, as it shouldn't put anything "stupid" in that field. Anyway,
here are a few things you could try. Note that they are in no specific
order, so whichever works best for you is great. For all those points
where you edit the .bib file, make sure you have a backup of it (or can
recreate it easily).
* Use JabRef (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jabref.sourceforge.net/">http://jabref.sourceforge.net/</a>) to import Endnote files
into a (new?) bibtex file
* Remove the "note" field (either using a bibliography editor like
JabRef, or by hand in the .bib file (it's a simple text file, so you
should be able to open it in just about any plain text editor, including
Tw))
* Rename the "note" field into a "comment" field (this can be done,
e.g., in a text editor with simple search/replace; i.e., replace "note
=" or "note=" by "comment =" or "comment=", depending on whether endnote
produces spaces around the equal signs); note that this only works if
there are no "comment" fields present already
* Rename the "note" field to something else (i.e., something not used
as a normal field with bibtex); these should simply be ignored
* [This is experimental and I haven't tried it] Find "plain.bst" in
your TeX distribution and copy it to the place where your .tex file is;
rename it (e.g., to something like "mystyle.bst"); open it in a text
editor and remove all "note output" lines; Then adjust your .tex
document so that it uses the "mystyle" bibliographystyle.
* [This is more complicated, but definitely the way to go if you have
fancy referencing requirements] Use custom-bib to create your own
bibliographystyle. It either can be installed from your TeX
distribution, or you can get it from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib/">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib/</a>.
In any case, eventually you should remove all garbage data from the .bib
file if you want to use it (semi-)regularly.
HTH
Stefan
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