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@AndrewKing@mastodonapp.uk
I'm a firm believer in reference management software of some sort. I can't imagine doing my footnotes/bibliography without it (600+page book!)
I've been using #EndNote for over 20 years now, and still use it because it's what I started with, and I'm essentially locked-in now. So much time already invested in it, but also so much famiilarity with how it works that it's difficult to go back to baby-steps with another system (cf @pfyfe on the 'commitment').
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@AndrewKing@mastodonapp.uk @pfyfe
My postgrads usually use #zotero (free, more modern, etc). Seems to work OK for keeping track of stuff, but the varieties of citations that might be in a historical PhD thesis (19thC books, newspapers, archival material...) routinely poses challenges in the final stages of PhD submission.
I know the hacks to get #EndNote to do it, but the students struggle to get #Zotero to do their footnotes/bibliography nicely. Don't know if that's #Zotero, or their lack of experience.
@aileenfyfe @AndrewKing @pfyfe
The hurdles zotero puts between me an the bibliographical style I need is the main reason, I haven't fully switched yet.
I only only got so far using the existing user friendly editors and never managed to set up everything according to the style sheet of any journal or series – German publications that is.
To realy get exactly what you want, you have to dive into the "code“. That is, at least for me, even more challenging than the process in TeX/Bibdesk.