Fields not populating in citation

sarahanne · April 15, 2016, 6:53pm

I am using EndNote X4. My EndNote style includes Epub Date in its citations:

I have included Epub Date in my references, either through direct import or manually updating my references. However, when Epub Date is included in my reference, it does not populate in my citation. I have updated my citations.

Any suggestions?

My apologies if this question has been already discussed in this board.

leanne · April 18, 2016, 4:40pm

can you attach the output style you are using and take a screen shot of the part of a journal record with this field included, or the exported reftype table?

leanne · April 29, 2016, 4:09pm

I checked your syntax. (adding a pipe and removing a `)

Try

dnblane · May 26, 2016, 8:52am

Hi Leanne,

I’m struggling with this same issue - my reference list in Word just populates as: [published Online First: Epub Date]. without the actual date. The style is ‘BMJEndnote’ (attached) downloaded from the journal’s website - another issue is that the journal title should be in italics but isn’t and I’m not sure how to change this.

Any help greatly appreciated!

David
BMJEndNote.ens (20.3 KB)

leanne · May 26, 2016, 2:51pm

It is simple to ital the journal (at least in the PC version) and I have done so in the attached revised output style.

was

now

To get the ePub Date to populate you have to have the field “ePub Date” completed in the record. Do you have dates in those fields? See attached. Also I added a couple link adjacent and a square bracket that seemed to be missing from the template you provided in the Journal bibliography template?

deleted flawed output style

[BMJEndNoteJO-ital -added.ens (20.4 KB)

dnblane · May 26, 2016, 3:09pm

Hi Leanne,

Thanks for your help with this - much appreciated!

So, the italics has worked fine, but the Epub Date is still not populating (despite it being in the record - see attached).

There’s also an additional line (i.e. | ) either side of the square brackets, as per the attached output.

Any ideas??

David

ENDNOTE PRACTICE DOC.txt (298 Bytes)

leanne · May 26, 2016, 3:46pm

Oops, that is what happens when I don’t test the final edited version –

okay, try this one. (deleted incorrect version)

BMJEndNoteJO-ital Copy.ens (20.8 KB)

leanne · May 26, 2016, 3:47pm

still not right as if there is no field info you get part of the text – working on it.

leanne · May 26, 2016, 3:49pm

okay – try this one

BMJEndNoteJO-ital final.ens (20.7 KB)

dnblane · May 26, 2016, 3:58pm

Hi Leanne,

That’s it working now - great!

Could I be cheeky and ask one final question - Do you know how I can change the date format from: 2011/10/20 to 20 October 2011? Would I have to do it manually for each reference or is there a simpler way to change it?

Much appreciated!!

David

leanne · May 26, 2016, 4:01pm

I don’t think there is anyway for Endnote to reformat the dates. Sorry

I found this in the help about dates:

“In the Date field of your references, enter dates as you would like them to appear in your formatted list or bibliography; EndNote does not reformat dates. The output style determines which date field prints in your bibliographic references.”

dnblane · May 26, 2016, 4:03pm

No worries, thanks for your help.

David