"Exclude year" leaves blank space behind author

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Hi,

I frequently use in-text citations only quoting the author by using the “exclude year” function. Unfortunately that leaves me a blank space behind the author (which I do not want, e.g. if its at the end of a sentence). Example:

“he repeats the argument, which has already been made by SMITH.”

Using Endnote for SMITH gives me

“he repeats the argument, which has already been made by SMITH .”

is there a way to remove that blank space? The citation template is simply “author year”.

best, Thilo

P.S. I’m using EndNote X2 with Word 2007

Message Edited by thilo on 08-30-2009 10:55 AM

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What kind of space between the author and year in the citation template?

There are two types of space, one is regular space appears like a dot in the citation template, another is link adjacent space which appears like a small diamond shape symbol.

If you find one type, changing to another would work.

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I’ve tried that but unfortunately neither changes the result. The unformatted citation in Word looks always like this:

{SMITH,…#129} (where … are two spaces). Removing those manually is changed back after next formatting by Endnote.

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Myoshigi is referring to the citation template in your edited  output style.  It is there that you should ensure that there is a “link-adjacent” symbol inserted from the “insert field” button.  So I guess since you have jetisoned the parentheses, it should look something like this: 

Author|,*YEAR|

with the * being the link-adjacent and the |, being “force separation”.  this means if you delete the year, the puctuation and space won’t show either.

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Thanks Leanne,

I understood what Myoshigi meant, unfortunately it didn’t do the trick. But using both, the lin-adjacent space and forced seperations works fine!

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Unfortunately now I got a blank space before citations excluding the author:

Example: “As Lawrence ( 2005) notes”

Interestingly this does not happen if I put the citation template in brackets (which I don’t want to do for sometimes I don’t need brackets).

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How about exclude both author and year, and type it manually?

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I have the exact same issue and am wondering if this has been resolved on the forum. Many thanks. Jim P

@thilo wrote:

Unfortunately now I got a blank space before citations excluding the author:

 

Example: “As Lawrence ( 2005) notes”

 

Interestingly this does not happen if I put the citation template in brackets (which I don’t want to do for sometimes I don’t need brackets).

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Actually, I found that if I format the style thus

Author Year

with no forced separation, then I can get

(1986)

The forced separation creates the space I don’t want:

( 1986)