Library Services
Working with multiple EndNote libraries:
Display of citations or reference lists:
Working with citation styles:
Working with multiple Word documents:
Technical problems:
You are advised to use only one EndNote library for all your work, to avoid errors and problems.
See Editing Citations.
Many humanities styles require that you use the Short Title field to enter abbreviated versions of the regular title as used as part of an in-text citation or a footnote citation. For example MLA typically lists just the author name and the specifically cited pages in the in-text citation (Izzo 141).
If there are multiple works by that author, MLA requires that the title, or a shortened form of it, be added to the citation. Where the full title of the reference is fairly long, such as "Research and reflection: teachers take action for literacy development" an easily recognisable form of the title is used that starts with the first word on which the normal title would be sorted. For example: (Izzo, Research 141)
If an EndNote style is configured to use the Short Title field but that field is empty in a record, the normal Title field is used instead.
In-text citations that are unformatted, i.e. they have not had a referencing style applied to them, appear in the format {Smith, 2016 #3}. To make them appear according to the style of your choice:
If most references are appearing as you expect and there are just a few references that are unformatted, it may be that those references are not in the EndNote library that is connecting with Word to format the document. This may be because you deleted the reference, perhaps as part of a duplicate deletion, or that you inserted it from a different EndNote Library. In this case, you may need to:
Author names will display incorrectly in Word if they are formatted incorrectly in your EndNote library. See the advice on author names in Adding References. If you want to add an institution as an author, put a comma at the end of the name. This forces EndNote to treat everything before the comma as a last name, so it should display correctly. See the EndNote support page on adding corporate authors.
See also Editing a reference and Adding a reference manually.
If you are using a numbered style, you might find that your citations are not numbered in sequence throughout the body of your document. This could be for a number of reasons.
The first thing to test is to see if the document has been instructed to start numbering at 1:
You can also check that the Style you are using does not use an alphabetical bibliography.
See also EndNote: Citation numbers out of order, on the EndNote website.
You need to edit the particular style you're using within your EndNote library.
Please also see advice from Clarivate on entering Citations into Word footnotes/endnotes and our tip box on footnote referencing styles
To enter references into footnotes, you need to create the footnote using the Referencing tools within Word, and insert the citation in the footnote.
EndNote will automatically produce both the footnote list at the bottom of the page, as well as the ready formatted bibliography at the end of your document.
Styles can be edited to display footnotes as in-text citations, entries that match the bibliography or a specific footnote format.
For references to appear in the bibliography they need to be cited in the text. After you cite them you can use the Edit Citation command in Word so that the citation would not be visible in the text but would appear in the bibliography:
If you amend the formatting of your bibliography using the standard Word formatting options, you will find it reverts back to the original formatting every time the bibliography is updated or refreshed. You should therefore amend formatting settings from within EndNote or using the options on the EndNote toolbar in Word.
You can amend the formatting of hanging indents in your bibliography for your chosen output style by amending the output style:
You may find it helpful to preview a reference using the style in the 'Reference' tab of the right hand pane when viewing your library.
You might wish to categorize your references, for example by type of source, such as book, article, or web page etc.
You might wish to output a list of references from your EndNote library sorted into different categories. For example, a list of everything by a particular author, or a references divided by publication type, or by year.
It is possible to manually edit citation styles to make small adjustments. Find the citation style which is closest to your requirements; you can then edit the style and save it as a new customised style. See Editing a referencing style.
You need to download the OSCOLA style and follow the instructions given on that website.
We recommend you maintain only one EndNote library as each has an unlimited storage capacity of many thousands of references.
You may experience problems if you have both the EndNote and Mendeley toolbars installed in Word.
If you get the message Cannot edit range, follow these steps:
Windows:
Mac:
If you see error messages such as "The requested object could not be found", "Command failed", "Unknown error", "Object has been deleted", "the range cannot be deleted" when working in Word, this might be because you have Track Changes or Comments visible.
Please see this help page from Clarivate for more information.