Endnote dropping finishing quotation mark for titles

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Hi, i did a search on google and the forum, but did not find a solution to this, so hopefully someone here can give me a hand.

I am using a OS X 10.7.1 with Endnote X3 and Microsoft Word 2008.

My issue is that Endnote drops the ending quotation mark for some titles as such:

Americans for the Arts. 1998. "Arts Programs for At-risk Youth: How US Communities are Using the Arts to Rescue Their Youth and Deter Crime. Accessed August 30th, 2011. http://www.artsusa.org/pdf/information_services/research/impact_areas/arts_education/Arts%20Programs%20for%20Youth%20At-Risk_Pamphlet.pdf.

This is the output style for that entry:

Author. Year. “Title|.” Journal| Volume| (Issue)|: Pages|. Accessed Access Date|. URL|. doi: DOI|.

As you can see, the finishing qoutation mark is in the output style, but it is not reproduced in my bibliography. The strang thing is that this is not a consisten error, with other entries, that uses the same style (journal article in these instances) the output is correct, such as this:

Drake, E.K., S. Aos and M.G. Miller. 2009. “Evidence-based public policy options to reduce crime and criminal justice costs: implications in Washington State.” Victims and Offenders 4 (170-196): 186. Accessed August 6th, 2011. http://www.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/Drake_VO_09.pdf.

Does anyone know what can be causing this problem and how to resolve it?

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Move the forced separation appearing between the “e” (in Title) and the period as it causes the ending quotation mark to “disappear” unless there’s a journal title present. 

So nstead of this:

Author. Year. “Title|.” Journal| Volume| (Issue)|: Pages|. Accessed Access Date|. URL|. doi: DOI|.

It becomes this (the asterick represents the link to adjacent text which may be needed to adjust adding or omitting a blank space for the presence or absence of a journal title):

Author. Year. “Title.”|*Journal| Volume| (Issue)|: Pages|. Accessed Access Date|. URL|. doi: DOI|.

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Perfect CraxyGecko, thank you very much! You are a lifesaver, i guess i should have spotted that myself.

Now i’ll report this to my University, because this error is actually in the template they tell us to use.

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You’re welcome and thanks for the update.  Best, ~CG