# How to use numerical referencing INSIDE parentheses?

**URL:** <https://community.endnote.com/t/how-to-use-numerical-referencing-inside-parentheses/310121>\
**Category:** EndNote How To\
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 9:34am UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/how-to-use-numerical-referencing-inside-parentheses/310121 "2015-07-20T09:34:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 9:34am UTC](https://community.endnote.com/t/how-to-use-numerical-referencing-inside-parentheses/310121/1 "2015-07-20T09:34:42Z")

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Hi -

I’d like to use numerical citations - as in Nature - but I need them to occassionally be inside parentheses. For example:  
(e.g., see [14]).

I have this expressed in my Word document (most recent Word 2011 for Mac) as:  
(e.g., see {author, year #number})

However, CWYW won’t format these citations. It will format regular citations where the curly brackets aren’t in parentheses, but these ones, it doesn’t seem to see…

Can someone help?

Thanks,