|
I am writing an invited review of stem cell transplantation in acute leukaemia. Somehow my brain subliminally shifted the deadline from the beginning to the end of this month: so it's already late! I am using Endnote 5 to marshall the bibliography, and its interface irritates me. It is useful though: I can download references from Medline via PubMed and not have to type them in. Unfortunately some of the exciting enabling developments in transplantation occurred before 1964, when the online version of PubMed appears to start.
Some 15 or so years ago, Jill Hoare and I wrote a bibliographic database program called Reflink© which ran on our local CTL mini. It was written in Coral 66 and had its own low-level disk access routines. It was terminal-based and line oriented but had far more sophisticated handling of journal and author input than EndNote. We had an output style-definition facility so bibliographies could be tailored to individual publishers' requirements, and a simpler method for embedding references into a paper and assembling a final bibliography. Maybe one day I will update it .
|
