I’m currently using Endnote X2 (Windows Vista Ultimate OS).
My current research project requires citing a healthy number of government documents. However, after choosing “government document” under the Reference Type, I found that I didn’t exactly like how it was formatting the actual bibliography.
So I went into the editing process of the particular style only to find out that under the Templates section there was nothing associated with “government document.”
Of course one can go through the process of inserting the Reference Type. But my question revolves around just this issue:
Because I would have to build the Reference Type from scratch (inserting the fields myself), I do not know if I am violating some form of formatting protocol in going step-by-step. I’m just guessing here, in other words.
So, my question is: is there any website that is officially or unofficially associated with Endnote which might show a “government document” user exactly how to set up this particular Reference Type?
Or perhaps better yet, are there any premade Reference Types that can be downloaded?
Thanks in advance for any and all help!
I’m having some difficulty properly citing government docs too. If I enter the info as I understand it via “add new reference”, EndNote automatically formats it as “author, first initial.”, even with “government document” selected as the template for the reference.
So, I end up with the “Services, U. S. D. o. H. a. H.” instead of “United States Department of Health and Human Services”.
I’m a new user and confident that the error is on my end, but I was hoping you might be able to help me out here. I’m using EndNote X2 for Mac on Mac OS 10.5.6 and Word 2008 Mac with CWYW. Thanks for any help you may provide.
I suspect that your problem may lie not with your output style but with the data entered in the Department field. This field feeds data into the Author term list, so entries into it need to be handled in same way as Corporate authors with the end of the corporate name indicated by a comma eg World Health Organization needs to be entered as World Health Organization, .
Kind regards
Patti
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Leanne,
Thanks very much for this information. I’m going to continue to play around with it to hopefully get things just right.
But I did have a follow-up question:
When entering the actual Reference information, under the Department field, I’m entering “HM Treasury” (which stands for "Her Majesty’s Treasury). (As you can obviously tell, this is a report associated with the current UK’s budget.)
In the actual bibliography output, however, I’m getting “H. Treasury” – the “M” is missing and of course a period has been inserted as well.
How do I go about changing how EndNote X2 is formatting this?
Thanks again!
That’s the ticket, thanks for the help!