How to insert ibid if author repeated in in-text citations?

Hello,

I’m having trouble with in-text citations. I would like Endnote to write ibid. instead of the author’s name if the name is being repeated immediately afterwards (like it does with footnotes). How can I make Endnote recognize this? Does it depend on the output style?

Please help!

Thank you for your help in advance.

Best regards,

Matthias

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Thank you very much for your answer.  But in my case I didn’t want to use it in the bibliography but within the text.

For example an in-text citation:

“He said this” (Doe 2008: 21). Some text to fill the space. But on the other hand, “[…] he said that” (ibid.: 22).

In the bibliography it would then use the full set of information, e.g.:

Doe, John (2008): Why it is This and That. Doetown: John’s University Press.


The problem is, that until now Endnote would do it this way:

“He said this” (Doe 2008: 21). Some text to fill the space. But on the other hand, “[…] he said that” (Doe 2008: 22). 

Is there a way to have Endnote recognize this? With footnotes it does.

Thanks a lot

Matthias

If the programmers are looking at this: please implement this feature in the next Endnote version.

It is a pretty common practise/requirement in my field (human sciences) to use ibid. in-text, and the absence of a way to do this in Endnote (apart from manually, which pretty much defeats the purpose of using a reference management software in the first place) makes Endnote all but useless for researchers like me.

It’s an annoyance as I’ve used Endnote for a while now but the discovery of the absence of this feature makes me have to switch to another software, with the bother of having to migrate/recreate my whole (extensive) library there.

Hi,

has this feature been implemented in the new endnote version? 

I agree that it is actually quiet a common requirement to use “ibid.” in in-text citations.

Is there a way to do this automatically?

Best,

KJ

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