She returned to Word. She re-inserted the citation. The document updated.
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. gaussian 09 citation endnote
She sighed. “Fine.” She typed all 23 names manually. She returned to Word
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
Alena opened EndNote X9. She clicked . Her fingers hovered over the dropdown menu for Reference Type. Computer Program . Yes.
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.