Friends,
I am a doctoral student in higher education and thus use APA 6 formatting guidelines. Everytime I insert an inline citation from Endnote 6, it automatically inserts both author and year. However, much of the time I only want to see the year and hide the author’s name. Is there a shortcut for this? I can’t seem to find one. Sure would be a great timesaver.
Many thanks,
Dan
Use EndNote’s “Edit Citation” feature to change in-text citations. Place your cursor on the citation, right-click, select “Edit Citations” then the desired format (e.g., Exclude Authorr) - see attached image.
Thanks CrazyG. This is what I currently do, but it takes a lot of time and effort, especially since I have to do it so often. Sure would be nice if they could just create a simple hotkey shortcut that allows you to insert author, year, or author and year.
Sure would be nice if they could just create a simple hotkey shortcut that allows you to insert author, year, or author and year.
You might submit this as a product suggestion (see link to forum below) - enabling users to define a specific in-text citation format other than the current default (Author, Year) so the same format (e.g., Exclude Author, Exclude Year, etc.) will be applied for subsequent citations until the setting is changed by the user.
http://community.thomsonreuters.com/t5/EndNote-Product-Suggestions/bd-p/en-suggest
Thank you for these helpful replies.
Currently, I select the reference I wish to insert in Endnote and then hit shift-command-i to insert it. I would love to be able to hit shift-command-y to simply insert the year. I can’t imagine a scenario for needing to insert author name only (in APA 6 when you cite the author’s name in the body of the sentence you simply cite the year in parentheses). I would like the feature to be set to that hotkey combo so that I can use it when I wish and only then.
I will look into starting a thread to suggest this feature. Thanks again for the great feedback!
