Problem with citation showing as (author, author et al year)

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I’m using X6 for Mac. I have the citation style as author-year, but the citation in Word has the first 2 authors (ie Smith, Jones et al. 2005)

I have tried going to Edit > output styles > edit and set it to:

if 3 or more authors, list the first 1 author

But it is still listing the first 2. I’ve tried selecting “Update Citations & Bibliography” since doing this, restarting Word and Endnote, and using a new Word doc. 

Is there some setting I am missing somewhere?

2

Are you using the correct output style file?  When the output style’s settings are changed, these changes are saved to a new output style file having the word “Copy” added to the file name (e.g., APA 6th Copy, Chicago 16th A Copy, etc.). So both EndNote and MS Word should be changed to use the new output style file in order to apply the changes.

3

Just need to ensure it is selected in the Word document, it doesn’t matter what output style is selected in Endnote;

It just matters what output style is in Word, and changing the style in endnote has NO effect on the output style selected in the Word document.   

4

How do I select output style in Word (Mac Office 2011)?

5

it is on the toolbar I think.  – the dialog box  should open when you use the  “format bibliography” tool.

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Thanks