Endnote X8 Not Formatting Bibliographies Correctly

Running the latest version of Endnote X8, with Microsoft Word 16.11 for Mac OS (Running OS 10.13.3)

I’ve developed a bug seemingly out of nowhere in which I’ve started having trouble importing references that have multiple authors. Basically it treats every paper as having 1 author with a ton of initials afterwards, seen in the middle reference in the screenshot attached.

Weirdly, this reference formatted perfectly fine the first time and it’s happening to every citation I add from this point forward. I don’t remember changing anything. Anybody any advice?

I had this happen once before where going in to edit>output styles>author-date fixed it, but this time it does nothing. 

I should also mention that I’ve tried deleting and re-entering the reference in Endnote: manually, via a web search and via importing a PDF. All yield the same result 

It was a formatting issue, thanks! The authors needed to be in a vertical line, which I did. But I realised that when I was making changes in endnote, I wasn’t pressing sync so any changes I made didn’t actually affect them in my word document

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