Is there any way to prevent EndNote including URLs in reference as hyperlinks in the reference list at the end of a paper. It’s a pain to have to remember to remove them before submitting. I just want the URL to appear as regular text, not a hyperlink.
Many thanks, Leanne - I will try that
I agree that Word can be the culprit with its autoformatting “feature.” However, even within EndNote X7, if I click the Preview tab, the URL is turned into a hyperlink. In fact, even when I type in a URL manually into a reference field inside EndNote (not in Word), by the time I type the second slash after http:, EndNote has turned it into a hyperlink.
Although in EndNote I can select the hyperlinked URL and press CTRL-T to change it to “plain text,” the preview in EndNote still shows it as a hyperlink.
It would be really helpful if there were a way to turn off/on in EndNote the “feature” that automatically turns URLs into hyperlinks.
Does anyone know how to do that?
Apparently I was deceived by EndNote X7! :manembarrassed:
When APA 6th style is selected, EndNote’s preview shows the URL as a hyperlink. However, if one uses “Copy Formatted” or if one uses File/Export to RTF and then pastes into Word or opens the RTF file in Word, the URL is actually not hyperlinked in spite of what EndNote’s Preview panel shows! :mansurprised:
So much for Preview! :manfrustrated:
I think you’re right Leanne:
@leanne wrote:
I can’t imagine when I wouldn’t want to be able to “link” from the Endnote program to a URL “live” – so I guess the developers couldn’t either.
I guess *I’m* the odd guy who expected the Preview to be one of those times when you didn’t want a live link but an actual Preview of what the reference would look like formatted in the selected style! :manwink:
Anyway, thanks for your help and I hope this info helps some other poor soul who might have different expectations for how the Preview panel ought to display previews of the reference.
Fair enough, but if I manually marked the URL as “plain text” using CTRL-T inside of EndNote, shouldn’t it remember that and show it as plain text in the preview? While I agree that Word could change that “plain text” URL into a hyperlink if Word’s autocorrect settings are set up to do that, wouldn’t the fact that I manually changed the URL to plain text suggest I want to override how EndNote thinks it will look in Word?
Ah well. I’m OK just carrying on knowing the preview is different than what I’ll get when I copy it into Word.
I guess the up-side is that I don’t have to manually change the URL to plain text at all, so, that saves me some trouble! :manhappy:
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