Booya! Accordance 8.4 offers citation feature

**update** the scripting superman Joe Weaks has just posted a great little script to solve the problem of Pages not supporting the "create footnote" feature of Accordance. Thanks Joe!

Fresh off the line today (Nov.10) is Accordance 8.4— a free upgrade for Accordance 8 users. While I always psyched to see a new Accordance release, I'm doubly excited to see this one because I had the privilege of helping out with this release and its main new feature.

8.4 now gives users the ability to copy citations along with accompanying bibliographic information. The bibliographic information is thorough and up to date, and is formatted in either Turabian or SBL style. Supercool also is its ability in both MS Word and Mellel to actually create the footnote for you.

As usual, this feature is dead simple to use. Just highlight the text that you are quoting and hit the "copy as citation" shortcut key (or use the Edit menu), then switch over to your word processor and hit "paste". The quoted text will be pasted in along with the bibliographic citation INCLUDING the page which the quote is taken from.

This new feature gives you customization features as well. Besides choosing Turabian or SBL, you can choose whether or not it automatically creates the footnote, you can encase the quote in characters (like quotation marks), and encase the bibliographic citation in characters as well. The time this will save me (and you) and convenience this brings for quoting text from my Accordance library makes this a most welcome addition.

Accordance 8 users out there- upgrade and enjoy!