Sorting endnotes

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wolstan dixie
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Sorting endnotes

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I am writing a paper for an academic journal. Their style notes require endnotes to be sorted alphabetically. Writer creates and numbers them as you enter them. I can't see any way to subsequently sort them at all. This is surely a common requirement? Any help gratefully received.
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Re: sorting endnotes

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Are you sure it is Endnotes they require sorted, not Bibliogrphy?

Most unusual to have endnotes in any order but sequential.
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Re: sorting endnotes

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Hmm - I'll check, you may be right
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Re: sorting endnotes

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See [Solved] Huge document, page count not advancing and [Solved] Large file very slow to respond and CPU use is high for ways to reduce problems with large documents with many footnotes/endnotes.

As you can convert from footnotes to endnotes and back to footnotes it is better - read response time is much quicker - to create and edit with them set to endnotes, which appear at the end of the document (or end of the section); rather than footnotes, which appear on the page. Change them back to footnotes when you are ready to publish and note how much slower things now are.
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Re: Sorting endnotes

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BTW
Academic journals should be leading in defining and applying reasonable styles for their publications. They should supply professional templates under ODF (OASIS) standards for every realistic use-case.
If they missed to do so, they should be told.
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