Comments on: EndNote styles in Zotero

By: Tom Armstrong

Tom Armstrong — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:14:53 +0000

Why in goodness sakes do so many journals set their own style? Surely any more than 10, maybe 50 “styles” is tweaking things with no good reason!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:23:21 +0000

Ha — well, I’ve been successfully able to teach workshops in its use. I don’t do it any more, since I can’t in good conscience recommend it to students.

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:42:26 +0000

You have been able to successfully use ENWeb? Impressive. Even I can’t make it behave nicely, and I’m tolerant of most anything…

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:49:03 +0000

Oh, totally. The nice bit about Zotero importing them is that you can pick and choose, and download just the ones you want. 99% of the time I use APA anyway, so I don’t usually care for my writing. But I do support it for faculty and students, so to me this is a huge point in Zotero’s favor.

I’m desperately trying to ditch EndNote Web support in favor of Zotero, and this will be a step in that direction.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:45:25 +0000

EndNote may come with more styles, but 1) they’re not always up-to-date on the CD [cough cough MLA style] and 2) that many styles slows down the application on our public computers.

And really, 2500 styles is a bit of overkill at this small, liberal arts college. Students always laugh their heads off when I show them the list. Faculty, I’m sure, like the options though.

At any rate, being able to import them is nice. Go Zotero for making it possible!