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BetterRed · 01-17-2017, 08:58 PM

@jesaia714 - There are EndNote, Zotero and Citavi plugins for MS Word. IMO that's the right place to integrate bibliography/reference managers into your workflow - i.e. during the creation process.

The ePub format is not a very good format for manuscript editing and proofreading (word processing formats and PDF are better), checking references and bibliography entries is an essential part of proofreading.

Normally, it's only after the errors detected during manuscript editing and proofreading are corrected and checked again, that the manuscript is converted to ePub. And that's when ePub editing software such as Sigil is used, to get a book into a 'fit for an epub reader' state.

I think of the ePub editing stage as the e-book equivalent of the Linotype operator getting a book into a 'fit to print' state.

BR

01-17-2017, 08:58 PM	#8
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,789 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@jesaia714 - There are EndNote, Zotero and Citavi plugins for MS Word. IMO that's the right place to integrate bibliography/reference managers into your workflow - i.e. during the creation process. The ePub format is not a very good format for manuscript editing and proofreading (word processing formats and PDF are better), checking references and bibliography entries is an essential part of proofreading. Normally, it's only after the errors detected during manuscript editing and proofreading are corrected and checked again, that the manuscript is converted to ePub. And that's when ePub editing software such as Sigil is used, to get a book into a 'fit for an epub reader' state. I think of the ePub editing stage as the e-book equivalent of the Linotype operator getting a book into a 'fit to print' state. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 01-17-2017 at 09:07 PM.