Hello
I am writing on behalf of a student who has a 300 page Word document with a large amount of references in them. Quite a few references are duplicating themselves - displaying as 2005a and 2005b - there is only ONE reference in the original EndNote library but if you do a “Find citation” search, it comes up with one correct and one corrupt (less complete fields) reference to choose from, e.g. #2 and #209
If you delete every reference and then insert them again it seems to have sorted most, but where is it finding these “duplicates” and is there a quicker fix please?
Not sure if this right etiquette to “re-open” message. Although this problem was solved for one student, there has been a subsequent problem for another student.
We perform the unformat citation to remove the traveling library (he is working on one large Word document with 2 associated EndNote libraries) which appears to work. However, on reformatting the bibliography - Word still identifies lots of duplicate references and asks you to “select matching reference” from a list of duplicates… We work through these manually and then Word crashes (one time it lost the EndNote plugin which we had to reinstall) and creates a repaired file.
Is the problem due to there being 2 EndNote libraries (one for books and one for journal articles) or is it something else?
Thank you. Had not saved and reopened. Duplicates look identical - when you say which source, do you mean which library or the origin of the reference (e.g. database/ Google Scholar etc)?
Will try as suggested. It is Endnote X2 and Word 2007 btw.