How can I completely remove brackets from citations in text?

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Is it possible to completely remove brackets from citations?

Thanks a lot,

Mirjam

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No, I would like to do it just for one single citation once in the text…I guess it is not possible to do this with endnote? Why can I not press the button “Exclude brackets” when there’s a button for “Exclude author” and “Exclude year”? This is so frustrating. If I enter the citation manually in the text, it doesn’t appear in the reference list :frowning:

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Thanks a lot, this is a good solution for my problem. :smiley:

Thanks for the info that it’s not easy to add that functionality…I thought it would be!!

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Thanks for the solution. However it is not really satisfying for I do need citations without brackets quite often (something like “… according to Smith, 1991…” just doesn’t work with brackets). So I plead for implementing this function along with the author and year removal switch in Endnote versions to come.

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Great to see this function finally included in EndNote (X5)

I asked if this could be included back in EndNote 3, and that is not X3 but V3 for Windows 3.1

Its been a long wait!

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I want to remove parentheses/brackets from all my citations but the option to edit my output style in this manner is not available using Endnote Web CWYW Word 2011 on mac.

Any suggestions?

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The administrator controls the styles that are loaded in EndNote Web. If it is something others at your institution would want to do, then negotiate with the administrator to load a new style.

Otherwise, I suggest work in EndNote Web for your research & writing using any style, but swap to the desktop client for the final version. You can change the document from EndNote Web to the Desktop client (EndNote X5 > Preferences > Application). Then you can change the document to use your own edited style without brackets before submission.

Mary-Ann