Imported Endnote styles do not look right

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Hi all

I have a problem with imported endnote styles. When I want to change the style that I used to write a specific word text to the style format of a specific journal I often experience errors. I will first import the relevant style to endnote. Simple enough. However, when I implement the style in word, it often looks wrong. For example, I have written a text using Chicago 16th, which looks correct, but when I implement the imported style it looks wrong (it does not correspond to the official style guide of the publication) and it will have obvious errors.

For example, I imported a style where the first citation would be full but the second mention should be the authors surname and then the year in parentheses. As in: “Peterson (2008)”. Irrespective of having all the right information on the publication in my Endnote library, the style gave me an incomplete reference. As in: "Peterson ( ". That is, it was missing the year and the ending parentheses. I have had several of these kinds of problems. Sometimes it is the style that is just wrong. Other times it is errors like this. Do anyone have an idea why this is happening? From what I could gather on Google it does not seem to be a common problem.

All the best,

Marc

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Hi

Thanks for the response.

Sorry for not being totally clear. I’m using footnotes (Chicago 16th A). In this instance I have converted the document that was written in the Chicago style into a style that is supposed to correspond to the Review of International Studies style. This style has a full reference in the first mention in a footnote, and the next should be “surname (year)”. It comes out “surname (”. As I mentioned, I’ve had problems like this before with other styles. 

Anyways. I’m doing nothing manually. I’ve simply converted the document from one style to the other. Anything changing in the format is based on the two styles.

The unformatted version looks like this: {Surname, year #3@page} - This is what comes out as “surname (” when formatted. I am noting a page number, but this doesn’t show up at all.

Best,

Marc