The citation appeared: (Frisch, M. J.; Trucks, G. W.; Schlegel, H. B.; Scuseria, G. E.; Robb, M. A.; Cheeseman, J. R.; Scalmani, G.; Barone, V.; Mennucci, B.; Petersson, G. A.; et al., 2009)
Alena opened EndNote X9. She clicked . Her fingers hovered over the dropdown menu for Reference Type. Computer Program . Yes.
She reopened EndNote. She edited the field. She saved. She updated the Word document. She held her breath.
She collapsed into her chair. The cursor blinked. She had spent 45 minutes wrestling a citation.
“Just use ‘et al.,’” said a voice.
(Frisch, M. J.; Trucks, G. W.; Schlegel, H. B.; Scuseria, G. E.; Robb, M. A.; Cheeseman, J. R.; Scalmani, G.; Barone, V.; Mennucci, B.; Petersson, G. A.; et al., 2009)
Word crashed.
She began to type. Author: Frisch, M. J. and then the legion of co-authors: Trucks, G. W.; Schlegel, H. B.; Scuseria, G. E.; Robb, M. A.; Cheeseman, J. R.; Scalmani, G.; Barone, V.; Mennucci, B.; Petersson, G. A.; et al.
“No!” Alena screamed.
But then she saw it. In the , the official citation included that “et al.” after the tenth author. The ghost hadn’t lied. It had just taught her the difference between truncation and abbreviation .
She closed her laptop. She walked to the vending machine, bought a stale granola bar, and ate it in the dark. Somewhere in the server room, a cluster of CPUs hummed a requiem for the hours of her life she would never get back.
Her advisor, a gruff physical chemist named Professor Hammond, had one unbreakable rule: “If you used Gaussian 09, you cite it properly. Not the manual. The primary literature. And it goes into EndNote perfectly, or I will print your .log files and eat them.”
She clicked save. A green checkmark appeared. Relief washed over her. She returned to her Word document. She clicked and selected her new entry.
She sighed. “Fine.” She typed all 23 names manually.
Dr. Alena Chen had been staring at the same line of output for three hours. Her computational chemistry project—modeling the electron transfer dynamics of a novel organic photovoltaic—was complete. The numbers were beautiful. The convergence was perfect. But now, she faced her true nemesis: The References Section .
The citation appeared: (Frisch, M. J.; Trucks, G. W.; Schlegel, H. B.; Scuseria, G. E.; Robb, M. A.; Cheeseman, J. R.; Scalmani, G.; Barone, V.; Mennucci, B.; Petersson, G. A.; et al., 2009)
Alena opened EndNote X9. She clicked . Her fingers hovered over the dropdown menu for Reference Type. Computer Program . Yes.
She reopened EndNote. She edited the field. She saved. She updated the Word document. She held her breath.
She collapsed into her chair. The cursor blinked. She had spent 45 minutes wrestling a citation. gaussian 09 citation endnote
“Just use ‘et al.,’” said a voice.
(Frisch, M. J.; Trucks, G. W.; Schlegel, H. B.; Scuseria, G. E.; Robb, M. A.; Cheeseman, J. R.; Scalmani, G.; Barone, V.; Mennucci, B.; Petersson, G. A.; et al., 2009)
Word crashed.
She began to type. Author: Frisch, M. J. and then the legion of co-authors: Trucks, G. W.; Schlegel, H. B.; Scuseria, G. E.; Robb, M. A.; Cheeseman, J. R.; Scalmani, G.; Barone, V.; Mennucci, B.; Petersson, G. A.; et al.
“No!” Alena screamed.
But then she saw it. In the , the official citation included that “et al.” after the tenth author. The ghost hadn’t lied. It had just taught her the difference between truncation and abbreviation . The citation appeared: (Frisch, M
She closed her laptop. She walked to the vending machine, bought a stale granola bar, and ate it in the dark. Somewhere in the server room, a cluster of CPUs hummed a requiem for the hours of her life she would never get back.
Her advisor, a gruff physical chemist named Professor Hammond, had one unbreakable rule: “If you used Gaussian 09, you cite it properly. Not the manual. The primary literature. And it goes into EndNote perfectly, or I will print your .log files and eat them.”
She clicked save. A green checkmark appeared. Relief washed over her. She returned to her Word document. She clicked and selected her new entry. She walked to the vending machine
She sighed. “Fine.” She typed all 23 names manually.
Dr. Alena Chen had been staring at the same line of output for three hours. Her computational chemistry project—modeling the electron transfer dynamics of a novel organic photovoltaic—was complete. The numbers were beautiful. The convergence was perfect. But now, she faced her true nemesis: The References Section .