Bibliography Manager II is a HyperCard application that was 
created to help researchers and authors keep track of and store 
information about bibliographic references, and to produce 
Bibliography or Literature Cited sections for papers.  This version 
(2.0) requires HyperCard v. 2.1 to run, and replaces all previous
versions of the program.

     The reference card for each bibliographic entry has separate 
fields for Author, Date, Title, Source, Volume, Pages, Keywords, and 
Notes, along with places to indicate whether you have a copy of the 
item and how it is filed.  You can do "quick searches" for text in 
individual fields, or use HyperCard's card marking abilities to 
identify and work with only a subset of the entries in the stack.  You 
can also create and save custom text import and export formats, so 
that you can import references from text files of varying formats, 
and can create custom bibliography lists to match the format 
required by your professor or publisher.  The program can also store 
a list of abbreviations for journal names that is cross-referenced to 
the names on the reference cards, allowing you to use either full 
names or abbreviations when you create bibliography lists.  You can 
create as many different bibliography stacks as you wish, and 
exchange bibliographic entries, import and export formats, and 
journal abbreviation lists among them.  There is also an on-line help 
facility.

     Since I designed this stack for myself and my colleagues in 
science, and am not familiar with all the protocols for literature 
cataloging and referencing in other areas of study, it may not suit 
everyone's purpose, but I hope that it can be a useful tool for those 
who want to keep track of literature references and who need to 
create reference lists when they write papers.


David Tremmel
901 Chalk Level Rd., Apt. T-14
Durham, NC  27704
dtremmel@acpub.duke.edu