I use in-text citation: (Smith, 1985:12)
Some authors I use regularly and therefore I would like to use a sigle for the work, such as
(SN: 12)
SN = Smith, Jeff (1985): »Some Title«, Place: MIT Press
The basic but tiresome solution would be to
Use a prefix: »SN:«
and then exclude author and year to get
(SN: 12)
Endnote-People, I am asking you for a professional solution to this problem. It can’t be that one has to manually add sigles as prefixes. This creates mistakes and it is tiresome (actually impossible) to change the sigle in a document with hundrets of pages if one needs to adjust something later on. There must be an automatic solution.
Two suggestions:
One option would be to create additional in-text citations but I couldn’t manage to add another template apart from the two templates provided by endnote (1 = Citation, 2 = Citation - Author (Year))
Instead of (Author, Year it should be possible to choose myself which field will be displayed instead. For example I could save my sigles in the Short Title field and output this field instead. All that would be needed is one more template for the in-text citations.
Second solution, which would really boost endnote: Add the functionality of if/then clauses to templates. Then everyone can simply »code« themselves all possible templates one can think of!