Multiple MS Word documents with one bibliography

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Hello. I’ve searched around for the answer to my problem, and have not found a solution. My problem sounds initially like one I’ve seen several times before – multiple Word docs with one bibliography – but I can’t figure out how to adopt it to what I need. Here’s my situation:

I have 40 chapters, each in separate word documents. There are refences in each chapter, but the bibliography should be in its own document. Thus, individual chapters should not have bibliographies. However, each chapter should have nice-looking references in the text. Thus, each chapter should have (Smith et al., 1994) instead of {Smith 1994 #23}. Whenever I format the references, a bibliography is automatically generated. I tried using Microsoft’s “master document” option, which is pretty neat, but it doesn’t get around this issue. I can’t figure out how to get the endnote references to be formatted within each individual document while having only one bibliography in a separate document. I should also mention that the publisher wants separate files for each chapter, not one big .docx with all chapters. 

I’m using windows 7 with Endnote 9. 

I hope someone can help me with this issue, and let me know if anything wasn’t clear enough from the description. 

thanks,

Mike

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Hi, thanks for the response. First: Yes, endnote works 9 works quite well with win7. I’ve never had any problems, although I also don’t do anything fancy with endnote, just the basic reference insert/formatting. 

I found a solution to this problem, which is similar to what you suggested. What I did was edit the output style (after saving it under a different name) to have completely blank bibliography. So, now it produces a “bibliography” at the end of each chapter, but that bibliography is just all blanks, so you don’t even see it in the word doc. For the separate document with all of the references, I can just “copy formatted” and paste into a new document. Works great!