I’m using EndNote X4 with Word for Mac 2011.
All of my authors for each reference are entered on separate lines like this:
Jones, B. L.
Smith, E. B.
Richardson, T. L.
I have defined an output style that (for the bibliography) should put First Initials followed by Last Name for the first author and for every author after that. But instead of getting:
B. L. Jones, E. B. Smith, and T. L. Richardson
I get:
Jones, B. L., Smith, E. B., Richardson, and T.L.
It seems to treat each author as two separate authors! Everything I read says that the format of my author list is ok, and actually, when I go to EndNote X4 window and click Edit->Output Styles->Open Style Manager and find my style and preview it there, I see exactly the bibliography result I want. However when I go to my actual endnote library and actual references, I see in the preview window the same bad result I typed above. So there seems to be a problem with how Endnote is reading my author lists. After each comma, it thinks there is a new author on the same line.
The only solution I have found is to re-enter all my authors like this:
B. L. Jones
E. B. Smith
T. L. Richardson
This is way too much work for me as I have 50+ references in this library and hundreds of authors. Can anyone help? I am at my wit’s end.