Edit the order of fields displayed in Reference Edit Panel

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Dear all,

I’m desperate - I’ve searched for solutions and can’t find a thing.

I’m accustomed to editing the fields that you see in the library view (X7), and that works fine. I only care about two. It’s the reference edit pane, or the reference panel (I care not which) that I need help with.

Currently, the list of fields (for reftype=journal article) is:

Author, Year, Title, Journal, Volume, Issue, Pages, Custom 7, Custom 8, Accession number, Abstract (finally)

I want it to be:

Title, Abstract, Custom 7, Custom 8

How do I make this happen? I cannot believe that the reference pane would be so un-editable according to user needs.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi there Laura,

So there is no way to turn off, say, ‘pages’ from the reference view for reftype=journal article? You can’t even toggle these on or off (unless they contain no data)?

Are there any workarounds that you’ve heard of - other than working on a larger screen?

Thanks

N

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Hi there Laura,

So there is no way to turn off, say, ‘pages’ from the reference view for reftype=journal article? You can’t even toggle these on or off (unless they contain no data)?

I eventually found something that said that to change this would ‘break’ endnote in terms of backwards compatability - which surprises me somewhat, I must confess. I suspect that Endnote wasn’t designed to allow researchers to assess the inclusion of references into a systematic literature review (the ‘screening’ stage)? Becuase a researcher has recently (April 2015) published means by which two people working on the same endnote database can, effectively, double screen references for an SLR (youtube: “endnote screencast 2”), I naturally assumed that Endnote was up for the task.

Are there any workarounds that you’ve heard of - save working on a larger screen?

Thanks,

N

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@nboxall wrote:

… Becuase a researcher has recently (April 2015) published means by which two people working on the same endnote database can, effectively, double screen references for an SLR (youtube: “endnote screencast 2”)…

Hard to say without having more information. But this might be related to sharing libraries via sync and Endnote online. What is the citation /reference/URL for this article?

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Hi,

I tried to add the youtube link, but kept getting an error message when trying to post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0MvdR2vwjQ

Enjoy!

N

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Hi Leanne,

The thread to which I was referring was:

http://community.thomsonreuters.com/t5/EndNote-General/Can-Field-Order-be-Changed-in-References/td-p/920/highlight/true

I’ve a history with ProCite (PhD), RefMan (ugh), Zotero (yay) and now, EndNote - none of them are really set up to do what I want in all ways. :slight_smile:

Thanks for the chat - if you ever hear of a workaround, please do feel free to update this thread!