Scrivener, using EndNote and moving to Word - issue with multipul references

Hi all,

I am hoping that someone maybe able to help. I have started using Scrivener to write my PhD thesis. I have no issue when I am using single references from Endnote - but when I have a list of say 5 references in a row, I do not want all the perentheses on each individual reference. Is there a way to sort this out, without having to manually edit it once Endnote has formated the paper?

Let me give you an example of what I mean.

In Scrivener I have the below (please ignore and dyslexic mistakes - they will be corrected in due course):

“Turning to case law, there is widespread agreement that the confession evidence of mentally vulnerable suspects gained within a police interview is at risk of being unreliable. This is due to a question as to the voluntariness and reliability of the confession evidence obtained. Their is evidence that police officers have not fulfilled their responsibilities to offer suspects legal advice from a suitably qualified person (The Guilford Four , 1989 #343) (The Tottenham Three \ , 1991 #341) (Stephen Downing \ , 2002 #337); have used both physical and psychological coercion (The Guilford Four , 1989 #343), (The Birmingham Six \ , 1991 #339) (Judith Ward \ , 1993 #342) (The Cardiff Three \ , 1993 #340) (Stephen Downing \ , 2002 #337); and have failed to identify, or have ignored, signs which may give rise to a belief that a suspect held a mental illness (The Guilford Four \ , 1989 #343), (The Birmingham Six \ , 1991 #339) (Judith Ward \ , 1993 #342) (The Cardiff Three \ , 1993 #340) (Stephen Downing \ , 2002 #337).  However, the largest concern to the criminal justice system is that of suggestibility, which may lead a suspect to making a false confession (The Guilford Four \ , 1989 #343), (The Birmingham Six \ , 1991 #339) (Judith Ward \ , 1993 #342) (The Cardiff Three \ , 1993 #340) (Stephen Downing \ , 2002 #337).”

Once I have compiled the document into an RTF file, then formated it with EndNote and open it in MS Word I see the following:

“Turning to case law, there is widespread agreement that the confession evidence of mentally vulnerable suspects gained within a police interview is at risk of being unreliable. This is due to a question as to the voluntariness and reliability of the confession evidence obtained. Their is evidence that police officers have not fulfilled their responsibilities to offer suspects legal advice from a suitably qualified person (The Guilford Four 1989) (The Tottenham Three 1991) (Stephen Downing 2002); have used both physical and psychological coercion (The Guilford Four 1989), (The Birmingham Six 1991) (Judith Ward 1993) (The Cardiff Three 1993) (Stephen Downing 2002); and have failed to identify, or have ignored, signs which may give rise to a belief that a suspect held a mental illness (The Guilford Four 1989), (The Birmingham Six 1991) (Judith Ward 1993) (The Cardiff Three 1993) (Stephen Downing 2002).  However, the largest concern to the criminal justice system is that of suggestibility, which may lead a suspect to making a false confession (The Guilford Four 1989), (The Birmingham Six 1991) (Judith Ward 1993) (The Cardiff Three 1993) (Stephen Downing 2002).”

However, what I want if for those sets in a row, to be surrounded only by one perenthesis at the begining and end of the multipul references. The below shows one I have manually edited:

"

Turning to case law, there is widespread agreement that the confession evidence of mentally vulnerable suspects gained within a police interview is at risk of being unreliable. This is due to a question as to the voluntariness and reliability of the confession evidence obtained. Their is evidence that police officers have not fulfilled their responsibilities to offer suspects legal advice from a suitably qualified person (The Guilford Four 1989, The Tottenham Three 1991, Stephen Downing 2002); have used both physical and psychological coercion (The Guilford Four 1989, The Birmingham Six 1991, Judith Ward 1993, The Cardiff Three 1993, Stephen Downing 2002); and have failed to identify, or have ignored, signs which may give rise to a belief that a suspect held a mental illness (The Guilford Four 1989, The Birmingham Six 1991, Judith Ward 1993, The Cardiff Three 1993, Stephen Downing 2002).  However, the largest concern to the criminal justice system is that of suggestibility, which may lead a suspect to making a false confession (The Guilford Four 1989, The Birmingham Six 1991, Judith Ward 1993, The Cardiff Three 1993, Stephen Downing 2002)."

I did post this question on the Scriverner forums and so far no luck. I am hoping someone here may be able to help me.

Make sure there are no spaces between the parentheses of the sequential inserted refs.  That is do a search and replace characters “)<space>(” with the charcters “)(”.

You might have to turn off some auto paste settings to achieve this when inserting new refs. 

I would also suggest you use the more unique curly brackets rather than plain brackets and avoid endnote from looking at other parenthetical insertions which aren’t refs? 

Many thanks. I have had more of a play and followed your advice. I am now acheiving what I need to acheive. I have also returned the perentheses to the curly ones.