I am preparing the bibliography for a manuscript being submitted to the journal Biochemistry. This was listed as an available format, but unforrtunately it is not correct in a number of respects. I’ve been trolling other journal formats to find something that meets the present requirements but to no avail. Is there some way I can customize a bibliography format? Thanks!
Thanks for your reply. I am an inexperienced EndNote user, running X5. I am a little confused by the following instruction:
Edit > Edit output style > edit “Biochemistry”. From the style manager, you can also “preview” the formats for journal book and and book section examples too.
What do I do after the command “edit Biochemistry”? Nothing happens on my screen and no new window appears. Is there suppopsed to be some way at that point to change the format template? Maybe I misunderstood what you were saying.
Thanks for the walk through. The problem with regular articles, which is what I’m submitting, is that it requires the full title, which is not part of the current Biochemistry style on EN. Apparently, for Rapid Reports full titles are optional. But I have seen other styles, which have full titles, which are otherwise similar to Biochemistry except for things like punctuation. Perhaps I can edit one of these and same to a new filename as you suggest. I will try it. Will also check out the templates. Perhaps that is what Biochemistry assumes we are using, even though it’s not required.
The current journal requirement is for full titles (of the articles) to be included. That, plus periods in journal name abbreviations, is the only thing I can see that is different from the current Biochemistry style on EN. I did purchase and download X7. But the Biochem style looks the same as it did in X5.
Problem finally solved! Followed your walk through, which ultimately worked. The program had not been putting the Biochemistry.enl file in the right directory, which made me think at first that the protocol for editing a new style was not working. So I manually copied the enl file to the appropriate directory and then it worked. So now the titles of the articles appear in the bibliography. The problem with the journal abbreviations not being punctuated is apparently related to the origin of the citation. If it was taken from PubMed, as most of them are now, there is no such punctuation because Pub Med doesn’t use them. EndNote does not know which parts of the journal name are abbreviations, so they can’t be put in automatically. I am getting in touch with Biochemistry to see how other authors have dealt with this issue. But the original problem has been solved - the references are now in the updated Biochemistry format. Thanks so much for your help!
I guess I initially missed what you were saying earlier about the journal abbreviations. That will be great! I will look at the video walk through today.
I know that you are a user and I’m really impressed with the knowledge of responders on this forum. Thanks for volunteering your time and expertise to do this!
The video walk through was very clear, and now I have been able to make the changes I need with the abbreviations. An ongoing problem Has been in how/where/if EN is saving the edited style (it wasn’t), but I changed the styles directory and now I can edit styles and save them. Not sure if this is what I was supposed to do or if it is a kluge but it does work now.
Thanks for all your help, Leanne!