Hello!
In Word, I miss an option to change the round brackets of a given citation to square brackets if the citation itself is in parenthesis in my text in Word:
e.g. “… (see also AuthorA [2010: 100] and AuthorB [2000: 10]).”
e.g. “… (note that not all researches agree [cf. AuthorA 2010:10; AuthorB 2010: 20]).”
The only work-around seems to be to edit the citation and first remove author and date, and then to type them in
the prefix box (but then, if you correct e.g. the year in the library, this change will not take effect in Word).
It would be great if this could be done more comfortably by being able to define a one-time formatting of the given citation within Word.
Mary
Hi - What style are you using? I wonder if placing the year in brackets is necessary or would having (see also Smith, 2010; Jones 2011) work? This treatment would only require you to add a prefix to the group citation. If you can confirm the style, we can take a look.
Hi!
@leanne wrote:
the easiest workaround to achieve this, is to hide the author and year in the citation and type in exactly what you want, or format the citation itself as hidden text (my preference because then I can still “see it” when hidden text is showing) and again type what you want. You can copy the author year information from the formated citation (not taking the parentheses with it) and paste that outside the endnote field, and add what ever you want. This will not be auto-updated though.
Yes, that’s how I do it. Unfotunately, as you say, author and/or year are not longer fields and will not be auto-updated.
@medmunds wrote:
Hi - What style are you using? I wonder if placing the year in brackets is necessary or would having (see also Smith, 2010; Jones 2011) work? This treatment would only require you to add a prefix to the group citation. If you can confirm the style, we can take a look.
No, my style demands round brackets as default: either “(AuthorA 2010: 100)” or “AuthorA (2010:100)”. So if I add the brackets as prefixes and suffixes, I’ll get into trouble if only year and pages should be in brackets…
Sorry, I still don’t get it.
My style formats an in-text citationas as “(Author 2010: 100)” by default. [Obviously I can change it to “Author (2010: 100)” manually. – No Problem here.]
However, if I need the citation to look like "[Author 2010:100] instead of "(Author 2010: 100)", I am still not sure how to do it.
How do I get rid of the round brackets (which I need in my style)? I cannot format as “Author (Year)” AND at the same time exclude the year. The brackets are always there.
Still hoping to get help…
@leanne wrote:
the easiest workaround to achieve this, is to hide the author and year in the citation and type in exactly what you want, or format the citation itself as hidden text (my preference because then I can still “see it” when hidden text is showing) and again type what you want. You can copy the author year information from the formated citation (not taking the parentheses with it) and paste that outside the endnote field, and add what ever you want. This will not be auto-updated though.
Actually this is how I tried to do it but how can I hide BOTH author and year?
How can I format the citation as hidden text?
Basically the idea is to write my citation “[Author 2010: 100]” as plain text and have kind of a placeholder next to it?
But then I no longer have the fields… and that’s why I started using Endnote in the first place…
What I tried to do now is define the name of the author in the bibliography as a bookmark and insert a crossreference to this bookmark in the text. At least, then I still have a field and not plain text and would realise if the entry in the bibliography gets deleted by mistake…
Hello again.
I am using X5, yes. But I can’t find the option to hide both author and year?? Where is it??
I am from Europe – and I don’t think this is the place to discuss IF I need it… If there are full sentences in round brackets (longer ones than the one you used in your example above), which is sometimes the case (if e.g. footnotes are not allowed), the citation has to be in square brackets. There are SOOO many different styles around, is it really so hard to imagine that some departments at some German universities demand one in which square brackets have to be used sometimes? But I agree, in most cases one can probably get along without them. And I admit that I’ve simply become used to them, having used them for many many years.
Anyway… There is no way to do it with Endnote, so I will highlight the brackets in question and search the highlighted brackets with Word at the very end and substitute them.
The same question was asked in a different forum btw, someone there suggested to suppress author and year and to use prefixes but I failed to realise that.
Thanks for all your help anway.
I don’t have it. 
Edit Citation / Formatting:
- Default
- Display as Author (Year)
- Exclude Author
- Exclude Year
- Show only in Bibliography
That’t it.
If I choose “Show only in Bibliography”, the citation is actually still there (in the text) but you cannot see anything: prefixes and suffixes are hidden as well.
But thanks again for your help!!!