Displaying a cronological reference number on the user interface ie. right hand pane of EndNote

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How can one display a chronological reference number in the right hand pane of Endnote?

It would be very useful to have a reference number to be displayed, no matter how one sorts the library.

Has anyone managed to do this?

I got a response as below from Thomson:

Using the API, you could create a plug-in that numbers the references to match the documents you’ve established in a custom field and display that field where appropriate.

Surely, it would be an enhanced feature and be very useful to manage the bibliographies and easy for reviewers/researchers to have each reference with a number.

We output the data to Word files and the Word files have a number for each reference but Endnote does not display the reference number.

Many thanks.

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It is not clear whether you mean chronological in terms of when the reference is added to the library (which can be viewed by going to Edit -> Preferences -> Display Fields and choosing “Record number” for one of the fields) or chronological in terms of where the reference is cited within a Word document.

I think you mean the second, in which case I cannot offer any help, but in case it was the first I thought I would post!

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Many thanks for your replies.

I meant just a numerical number and not the record number. I have used the record number, but as it is not in sequential orrder, it is no use.

Say I have, 375 references in the library, then I want to label each reference with a number in a sequence.

So reference 1 displays #1. reference 2 displays #2 on the user interface and the last reference will display #375

I can number each reference in the Word file but there is no way to add a field for a numerical number on the interface unless the API is changed.