For what it’s worth, my (limited) experience with Scrivener is that it is easier than Word for footnotes. Especially if you don’t want to gunk up your document with non-portable proprietary fields. My workflow went something like this:
- Write text.
- Look up references relevant to that text. Create, in a separate Scrivener document, bibliography entries of the form:
[Smith07] J. Smith, et al, Up, down, and strange, A Guide to Quantum Repair, Wiley & Sons, 2007. - Place [Smith07] in the text at the appropriate point.
- Keep writing.
- When done, use Edit Scrivenings to put all the references at the end. Use global replace to turn [Smith07] into the appropriate number.
- Export to Word.
I haven’t used Endnote, so I don’t know exactly how I would integrate it into this flow. Still, I would think you could just paste a text citation into the [Smith07] Scrivener note.
Now, this was for a 3000 word article with a handful of references, not a thesis. Still, Scrivener’s modular handling of text should make it scalable to whatever you need.
Katherine