# Author Name Auto Changes **URL:** \ **Category:** EndNote General\ **Created:** [June 10, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/author-name-auto-changes/288131 "2021-06-10T20:02:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![greeley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@greeley](https://community.endnote.com/u/greeley)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/author-name-auto-changes/288131/1 "2021-06-10T20:02:06Z")
My continued woes with Endnote 20. When citing the “U. S. Preventive Services Task Force” (as the first author for a manuscript), the Endnote add-on for Word changes it to “Force USPST”. This also happens with citations. For example, JAMA (which i type in) automatically gets converted to “JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association”. How do i stop Endnote 20 from reformatting these? Thanks, Chris ---
**Author:** ![greeley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@greeley](https://community.endnote.com/u/greeley)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/author-name-auto-changes/288131/3 "2021-06-11T16:37:53Z")
Wonderful! Thank you for your help. This worked perfectly. Chris ---
**Author:** ![cmebane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@cmebane](https://community.endnote.com/u/cmebane)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/author-name-auto-changes/288131/4 "2021-06-14T02:37:28Z")
Maybe I could continue this thread: I use a lot of corporate author sources and some publication styles accept lenghty corporate names abbreviated in the citations and some want them in full. For example “USEPA 1996” vs “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1996”.  And some like “U.S. …” and some like “US …”   I’ve futzed around with Citations style definitions but gave up and just kludge it - once I get close to submission I just manually change the author names from USEPA to ‘U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’ or whatever. It’s a good way to make a mess of the library.   Any suggestions on this longstanding issue would be appreciated! Chris M ---
**Author:** ![cmebane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@cmebane](https://community.endnote.com/u/cmebane)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/author-name-auto-changes/288131/6 "2021-06-20T15:38:04Z")
Yeah, thanks. I don’t think there’s any way around copy and pasting one way or the other and some manual typing. Dang publishers - why they need 1,000+ style iterations when about 3 or 4 should cover it