The feature of “field substitution” is great but the options open to do this are too limited. One example: many electronic journals do not have pages anymore, but a code for the page. It would be nice to replace the field “page” by that code when the field “page” is empty.
I see 2 ways to implement this in Endnote (at least at the level of the user interface):
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in the dialog box “field substitution”, add a selectable field next to the check box, so that we can replace the preselected options with a field name (or a combination of fields) and add a field “condition” (= empty, <> xxx, =any)
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introduce a new separator in the definition of the styles. Currently, you use “|”. How about using “||” to signify either one or the other if the previous one is empty?
It seems that no one has responded to fmarionpoll’s very thoughtful suggestion.
I am also struggling with this problem, as the following example shows:
Harvard Education Press requires Chicago 17th with endnotes, without bibliography. That is, all bibliographic information must be in the endnote, which is not the case with the style I downloaded from the endnote website.
My problem: for journal articles and book sections, I would have to include the pages of the entire text, unless I refer to a specific page (“cited pages”).
Ideally, with “field substitutions”, I could say that “cited pages” is inserted, and if “cited pages” is empty, that the span of pages (“pages”) is then inserted. But this is not possible with “field substitutions”; I cannot add a new rule.
Does anyone have a solution?