ProCite 5.0
Christian H. Poehlmann · Information Technology and Libraries · 2002
ProCite 5.0. 2141 Palomar Airport Rd., Ste. 350 Carlsbad, CA 92009 1-800-722-1227 [email protected] Price: Full retail version $395.95, students $109.95, single-use upgrade $99.95. System requirements: Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/XP. Word processor compatibility: Microsoft Word for Windows 7, 97, 2000; Corel WordPerfect 7, 8, 9. Macintosh version system requirements: PowerPC/Mac with Macintosh operating system or compatible (120MHz recommended); Apple MacOS System 7.5.5 or later. Reference Manager 9.5 2141 Palomar Airport Rd., Ste. 350 Carlsbad, CA 92009 1-800-722-1227 [email protected] Price: Full retail version 5395.95, students $109.95, single-use upgrade $99.95 System requirements: Microsoft Windows 98/ME/XP/NT4/2000. Word processor compatibility: Microsoft Word for Windows; XP, 2000, 97 and 7; Corel WordPerfect 8, 2000, 2002. Anyone who has ever published a scholarly book or paper knows that the most tedious aspect is generating the bibliography. Nor is any task associated with this so prone to avoidable error. ISI ResearchSoft has made this task a little less tedious with its suite of bibliographic management products. Bibliographic management software eliminates the need for writing citations on file cards for later use. Citations can be entered into the data-base manually; they often can be imported from a database on the Internet. Once the citations are in the bibliographic reference manager file, they can be retrieved by a variety of means and used for articles, books, and any other publication requiring a bibliography or citations. The reference manager software automatically reformats the citations according to any one of the hundreds of predefined output styles, which vary from journal to journal. Two of these products, Reference Manager and ProCite, are reviewed here. Endnote was reviewed in the December 2000 issue of ITAL, but an updated version was recently released, and the differences between versions are addressed in these pages as well. ProCite and Reference Manager can be used apart from a word processing application to search the Z39.50 databases, to search for references within a bibliographic file, or to generate a bibliography. Conversely, they have the capability to integrate themselves into Microsoft Word or WordPerfect via their Cite While You Write (CWYW) function. This allows the author to format citations and generate a bibliography with a few simple commands. Installation on a Windows NT 4.0 machine running Microsoft Office 2000 was quick and straightforward. ProCite and Reference Manager both integrated seamlessly as add-ins with Word during installation and should do so with WordPerfect. Installation results in a new toolbar as well as a new pull-down menu item for Word. When you install either of these products, the installation software determines which versions of Word or WordPerfect are available and installs the CWYW function automatically. However, if Word or WordPerfect is installed after installing either of these products, the CWYW setup must be run for the function to appear in the word processor's Tools menu. ProCite has a Macintosh version available, while Reference Manager only exists in a Windows version. The look and feel of both products is nearly identical. In fact, the toolbar is identical and only slight differences exist in the pull down menus. Of course, this means that they have many functions in common as well. Each can search Internet databases, organize references, and format bibliographies. A bibliographic file created by ProCite, Reference Manager, or EndNote can be easily converted to a form usable by any other of those three applications. A primary function of a bibliographic manager is to create, manipulate, and format bibliographic references. This is a formidable task when the number of bibliographic references in a scholarly work can number in the hundreds or even thousands. …