Is there a way to have a prefix in the bibliography (not in the citation, which is already possible). I mean something like this:
At the moment I realize this by a custom field “prefix” in the record set. This has the disadvantage that I have to keep two records. One with, one without prefix - because I do not what to see the prefix in all citations.
Michael
Which style are you using?
You could instead choose to enter that text as a Note? But you can’t insert a citation into a note and would need to type in the full reference.
If you are using a footnote style, you just type in the text before entering the endnote reference.
A final trick might be to create a new reference type, duplicate the record, change the ref type for the duplicate and in the alternative ref type’s Bibliography template in the style, add the preceding text as a part of that specific ref type template.
Thank you for the anser.
@leanne wrote:
Which style are you using?
I’m using endnotes (style: Angew. Chemie)
You could instead choose to enter that text as a Note? But you can’t insert a citation into a note and would need to type in the full reference.
This is exactly what I want to avoid and the reason why I use a reference manager! - I think inserting references in notes would be a nice feature!
If you are using a footnote style, you just type in the text before entering the endnote reference.
This was what I did before I switched to endnotes. If one wants to insert “grouped references” and you insert these in a footnote generated by word, word makes the numbering and one has to omit the numbers generated by endnote which is not what I want to do.
A final trick might be to create a new reference type, duplicate the record, change the ref type for the duplicate and in the alternative ref type’s Bibliography template in the style, add the preceding text as a part of that specific ref type template.
OK, this is more or less the solution I have at the moment. But it is not very elegant to to have several copies of a reference just in order to be able to add prefixes.
Thank you, Michael
Michael,
I helped one of my Grad students with this issue a few days ago. He was using JACS output style. He decided that “MAP” reference type was a reference type he would never use for real citations. For these “prefixes” in the the bibliography, he then would enter the text in the Map “Title” field. We modified the default JACS style to include the MAP reference type and inserted the Title field in the template for MAP. He then named the style something that would be clear to himself.
Since it is a JACS modified style, I suggested he preview the original citation in the EndNote preview pane using JACS style, then copy and paste the properly formatted “citation” into the MAP record’s Title field.
The last thing we did was change the display fields in his Endnote to include Title field so that he could easily identify these “prefix” records in the Endnote library.
One other point… You refer to “grouped citations.” Perhaps I did not understand your message, but it is possible to create “grouped citations” (common in chemistry) with Endnote X3 forward. Endnote calls these “composite citations.” You can edit the numbering format in your output style under Citations > Numbering. This has been a great help to my researchers.
Emily