My publisher (OUP) wants my endnotes formatted as last name only (unless authors share a last name), short title, and (if appropriate) page numbers. I can’t seem to edit a style so that it generates only the last name for the footnote citations. I can go back once I’ve finished and delete first names manually, but (1) this is pretty tedious for a 400+pp ms. and (2) I’d need to be certain that nothing needs to be edited again before I do that, since the first names would reappear if I update the citations.
do you have separate templates for citations, bibliography and footnotes? Each one has an author setting, but if you try to use “same as” for footnotes, it will adopt the settings of the whatever you you set the same as for.
So you will need to set your footnote template separately. and Have Short title in the template for both first and subsequent cites there.
see the attached. The first is the author setting for footnotes, where all the footnote templates are set up for each ref type - or you could have a generic one set that would handle all the ref types there. If (as in capture 2) the setting is to use the citation template, you would edit the citation template to include the short title and the last name only for author.
Yay – that worked! Thank you!!
I’m hoping that you might help me make the leap to using “short form” style in my footnotes and still having a Chicago 16 formatted bibliography.
So when I insert a footnote I do it in Word and then use the Insert Citation command to pick the citation I want to footnote. However, no matter what I seem to do all I can get is a “full” footnote that is almost identical to the full citation ni my bibliography.
Is there a plain, numbered instruction list for how to use a short form footnote?
Would asking for a more “basic” explanation be completely sad?
Thanks!
@dolusbonus wrote:
So when I insert a footnote I do it in Word and then use the Insert Citation command to pick the citation I want to footnote. However, no matter what I seem to do all I can get is a “full” footnote that is almost identical to the full citation ni my bibliography.
Is there a plain, numbered instruction list for how to use a short form footnote?
Questions:
- Do your Endnote records have short titles in the “Short Title” field? (The Short Title field is used to enter abbreviated versions of the regular title which should be used as part of an in-text citation or a footnote citation.)
- Does your output style include the short title templates – you can check or attach your output style file.
For further information on short titles, go to the Endnote toolbar and select Help >Search for Help on, and look up “short titles”.
The way the footnote templates are set up, there is a longer version of the footnote for the first time cited, and a shorter version the second time cited for each ref type. If you want the short version irrespective of the first or second citation, you should copy the short form into the first box too, in your output style. Save as to a new name and ensure you select this newly named style in your document. (you will likely have to view all styles to find it the first time.).
