Word is suitable for writing short texts and papers. For citing and generating a correct list of references, it works well with a paper specific EndNote bibliography file. Extract from your FileMaker data base (LiteratureMY) the references you potentially might cite into that bibliography. Mark these references in LiteratureMY with a label in field In use. Invent a label which allows you to easily recognize which paper you mean.
For OS 2004/2008 users, Office 2004/2008 comes on a separate CD "Office 2004" or "Office 2008", respectively. IMPORTANT: Immediately install also all updates in the numbered sequence you find on the corresponding update CD's for Office 2004/2008! Please, install immediately the templates to use proper styles in your Word documents. In particular I ask you to discard the original Word template, it only encourages poor writing styles. You find them either on the CD "AFs Word & TeX CD" or here.
Should you use Mac OS Classic, all tools you need to work with Word come with hints, templates, and particularly updates on the CD "AFs Word & TeX CD".
See our shadow home page for links on further hints and installation tipps for the needed software, documentation and hints to get going.
TeX is recommended particularly for large texts such as a PhD thesis or a diploma thesis or any text with many mathematical equations. TeX is a great pleasure to use and contrasts in this respect strongly with Word, which comprises significant risks of loosing your work, especially if you work with large and complex texts. It is easy to transfer references to a TeX paper from your LiteratureMY FileMaker data base.
Again I recommend to extract from your FileMaker data base (LiteratureMY) the references you potentially might cite into your paper specific BibTeX file. Mark these references in LiteratureMY with a label in field In use (invent a label which allows you to easily recognize which paper you mean). Then execute the script Export to BibTeX (menu command "Scripts -> Export to BibTeX"). This will export the currently selected references directly to a BibTeX file (extension .bib) you are using for your paper. If you wish to further manage references in your created file, I recommend to use BibDesk and/or AlphaX.
There is also the possibility to export references from EndNote to BibDesk.
Simply use the EndNote output style ~BibTeX_Export.ens.zip (download). Either export to a text
file that you name with extension .bib and open it in BibDesk or use the
clipboard. Both techniques require to have aforementioned output style
selected while exporting or copying. Using the clipboard means choose in
EndNote menu command "Edit -> Copy Formatted" while having relevant records
selected. Then paste the content of the clipboard into a BibDesk window.
All tools you need to work with TeX come with hints, templates, tutorials and other helpful material on the CD "AFs Word & TeX CD".
See our shadow home page for links on further hints and installation tipps for the needed software, documentation and hints to get going.
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