Please help me out:
The Endnote manual (I’m using ver. 8, but it’s also in later versions) says author names can be listed in either “John Doe” or “Doe, John” format. But it always reads “John Doe” as “Doe, John”. I even try putting a comma at the end of the name, which is supposed to make it treat everything before the comma as a unit, but it doesn’t work. Here an example. Here is the input file:
%O Book
%A Hemingway, Ernest
%D 1929
%T A Farewell To Arms
%C New York
%I Macmillan
%O Book
%A Ernest Hemingway
%D 1953
%T Green Hills of Africa
%C New York
%I Charles Scribner’s
%O Book
%A Charles Darwin,
%D 1859
%T On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
%C London
%I John Murray
I read this into Endnote and it only reads the first one correctly, the others are backwards, as you can see in this output file:
Reference Type: Book
Record Number: 106
Author: Hemingway, Ernest
Year: 1929
Title: A Farewell To Arms
City: New York
Publisher: Macmillan
Short Title: A Farewell To Arms
Alternate Title: Book
Reference Type: Book
Record Number: 107
Author: Ernest, Hemingway
Year: 1953
Title: Green Hills of Africa
City: New York
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s
Short Title: Green Hills of Africa
Alternate Title: Book
Reference Type: Book
Record Number: 108
Author: Charles, Darwin
Year: 1859
Title: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
City: London
Publisher: John Murray
Short Title: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Alternate Title: Book
