EXPERIENCE WITH THE REFERENCE MANAGER ENDNOTE-ENDLINK

A good reference management program should make it easy to record the elements of a reference: author's name, year of publication, title of article, etc. It should offer tools that let you find and retrieve ref erences quickly,and it should be able to produce the bibliography in t he format required for a particular publication. There are many com pu rer programs, but very few stand out as truly useful,time saving,and w ork enhancing. One of them is EndNote-Endlink,We want to report our ex perience with this database manager. The functions and the use of the software package EndNote 2.3 for Windows are described. You can create your database or you can download batches of references from one of t he popular searching services (e.g. MEDLINE). When you want to cite a reference you simply paste the reference wherever you want your in-tex t citation to appear. To prepare the bibliography, EndNote scans your article, replaces the place holders with citations and prints the list of references at the end of the manuscript, according with the style that you have chosen. Altogether EndNote provides an excellent combina tion of features and ease of use.