Chromatography Forum

Does anyone use a citation manager programme ?

I have started with Mendeley, and although it is impressively efficient at some things it is quite poor at others:

- when importing titles it ignores italics, which is a problem for biological species names. While it is possible to edit the titles, getting italics requires the "<i>" "</i>" commands, and it is not possible to get any special characters except by typing them into word and then copy and pasting. Edits to titles do not always save.

- Journal abbreviations require a workaround that involves loading a text file of names and abbreviations. As far as I can see it is stuck with one abbreviation style.

- the bibliography in a manuscript ignores the formatting of the rest of the manuscript, and every time it is updated all the formatting (i.e. line spacing) changes back to the Mendeley version.

- the basic version is free, but with just over 200 references loaded I have used up more than a third of my space.

- changes have a nasty habit of sometimes not saving


What are other people using ? - what are the good and bad points ?

Thanks

Peter

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Reference Manager--one of the programs supplied by my employer. Not entirely happy with it, but it mostly does what I want, and what it doesn't do is as likely to be a fault of my ignorance as inherent to the program.

EndNote - I can't delete once imported reference (so far I could not find how to do that), otherwise it works perfectly for me.