How does Pages handle Bibliographies?

There used to be some fairly big limitations in Pages' own handling of references, citations and bibliographies. With Pages '09, Apple supports Endnote. I currently (6 January 2009) do not know how well that integration works.

The following text was written for earlier versions of Pages.

If you choose to use Endnotes that go at the end of a document, you cannot use page Footnotes or Section Endnotes in the same document. If you want to add text after the list of Endnotes, you are better off using Section Endnotes to start with. Use one section for the whole document, until the "end notes" section, and then add another section after that with the last bits of the document.

If you want to use the same reference several times using cross references with footnotes, you will have problems. Microsoft Word handles that better.

There is no support for multiple tables of contents. Neither is there an integrated Bibliography database, as there is in NeoOffice/OpenOffice.

Pages does not integrate elegantly with dedicated reference software like Thomson ResearchSoft's EndNote or Sonny Software's Bookends or Reference Miner. That kind of software tends to integrate better with Microsoft Word or Mellel. It is sometimes able to scan RTF files - which you can produce from Pages, provided the document does not contain pictues.

Thomson ResearchSoft state on their Mac page that they are unable to integrate their Cite While You Write functionality into Pages 3.0, as Apple does not support that kind of integration.

CiteInPages but it claims to integrate with BibDesk after some configuration.

Third Street Software's Sente does have bibliography support for Pages.