I’m hoping that someone might be able to help me with two problems that I’m having with my reference list.
There is one reference in my list which will simply not allow me to add one full stop after the title of the journal article. Normally, this occurs automatically (and has for all other references in the list) but does not for this particular reference. The strange thing is in when I put my own full-stop in it then shows that the reference has two full stops! Does anyone have any ideas on what I could do?
Another reference has a question mark at the end of the journal article title and because as I have mentioned the full stops are inserted automatically the reference appears with the title and question mark and full stop. So, basically I just need to work out how to delete the full stop for this particular reference.
I apologize if these questions have been answered elsewhere on the forum but I have not come across them.
Is the reference the same Reference Type which doesn’t have a full stop, as those that do? This sounds like a “style” problem. Does the punctuation work with a different style?
The ?. problem could only be solved by making that a different reference type and then copying that ref type’s bibliography template to the new ref type in the journal style, and deleting the “.” from after the title.
In response to Q1 - the references that I’m having problems with (there is now a couple) are the same reference type as those where the full stops are intact. I have tried other styles (generic, report etc) and the punctuation still does not work.
In response to your advice for the 2nd issue of ‘?.’ I didn’t really follow what you meant by copying the bibliography template to the new ref type in journal style. Interestingly, when I change the style of these i.e… to generic - I lose the full stop but am not sure how to then input the info so that I can set it up as a journal reference.
In response to your last question about attaching the style - I’m using APA 5th. I hope that is what you were meaning.
I’m not sure what you mean by your question ‘Do you have the full stops in the titles of the records in your database?’ Sorry, if I’m missing something really straightforward. All my other references seem to be working okay i.e.they have full stops after the title of the journal article with the exception of a couple that either have no full stop or they end with a question mark in which case they do not need the full stop.
Check to make sure that the reference that is causing the problems doesn’t have a space at the end. I was just playing with EndnoteX2 and APA 5th, at it seems to put in a period, if there is no full stop, ? or space but doesn’t put in any punctuation if there is a space or ? which is what you want. I don’t know what version of Endnote you are using though.
I’m missing something really straightforward. All my other references seem to be working okay i.e.they have full stops after the title of the journal article with the exception of a couple that either have no full stop.
seems the message stopped mid sentence… -but don’t know why the URLs are there. – so are the ones not working, of a different reference type, which is missing the info in its template?
I had the same issue and I realized that this usually happens if there is a space that I have added inadvertently after the last word of the title, or after the date. Try and check if there are spaces after the words or dates that for some reason do not show the punctuation you formatted.
