I have just started with endnote and everything was going ok but suddenly the refence added is comming through as follows
{Kumari, 2013 #95} or {Stebounova, 2012 #102}
As there are only 60 saved PDF’s the number cannot be from sequence in the library.
Have I done something wrong?
Is there a solution?
Phil
These are the temporary endnote citations. depending on the version of Endnote and word, the fix can be as easy as looking on the ribbon X7 (in Word 2007,2010 or 2013) and looking for the "instant formating is “off” and click it to turn it “on”. in other versions you will need to open the format bibliography dialog box and look for the third CWYW tab, and make sure CWYW is “enabled”. – the record number is auto generated and if you add records and delete them, the number is never reused, so that number can easily be bigger than the number of records in the library.
Sounds like a solution! Thanks heaps leanne
Hello everybody,
I’m using the APA 6th ed. but I’m struggling to fix citations in the text. ENDNOTE has changed all of them. According to the APA style citations should be like this:
(Farrel, Brown, & Juls, 2013) or this (Farrel et al., 2013) when there is more than one Author and the citation has to be repeated for the second time.
My EndNote changes the citation (Farrel et al., 2013) into (Farrel, 2003), which is wrong according to the APA. It doesn’t include other AUTHORS, although I have fixed the settings Edit & Manage Citations, (Author and Year).
There is also another problem, EndNote adds author’s name (when it is not requested) , for eg. (J. Farrel, M. Brown, & G. Juls, 2013), where the J. M. G. stand for the Author’s name.
How do I get over it? Is there anyone who could help me? I have already kept in touch with the techinical assistance and I have followed their indication but still it doesn’t work.
I’m not sure what is happening in the first case (where it is deleting the et al), but I think I may have an answer regarding your second issue. I had this happen to me once while writing a very long paper and it drove me nuts for several hours. I eventually realized that my paper had two authors with the same last name. When that occurs, APA style states that the author’s first initial should be included in every reference so that they can be differentiated. If you have multiple authors with t0eh same last name, that could be your issue.
This problem also occurs if you are inconsistent in the way in which you type your author names. If you are referring to the same author in two references, you have to type it the exact same way both times. I have run into this issue when, for example, I have two works by Erik Erikson. In one reference I entered his name as “Erikson, E.” and in another I wrote it without the period, as in “Erikson, E” and another I typed it all out as “Erikson, Erik” . EndNote will read all of these as different authors with the same last name and thereby start putting in initials.
Another time I’ve seen this is if you happen to get a duplicate source in your library. There have been times when I’ve entered a source once myself and then perhaps imported it again. If the authors are not put in exactly the same (see above) then it will read then as different people. The best fix for this is to run a duplicate sources check, but be aware that after running this you also have to recheck your references. The duplicate check will remove the duplicate from your library, but if both are cited already in the paper, they will remain in the paper’s citations. The way to fix this is to track down the citations that refer to the one you deleted and then delete that occurence of the citation in the body of the paper and replace it with the proper one that you kept.
I hope this helps!
Thanks a lot for your suggestion! So you mean that if I have a duplicate of some papers I should remove them from the library? Is there any other way to check for duplicates than going one by one?
Within EndNote, go to the References Menu. About 2/3 of the way down you’ll see an option to “Find Duplicates.” This will scan your library for you. When it finds one, it will bring them up side by side so you can comapre them to make sure they are indeed duplicates. If you’re not comfortable deleting one of them, it will at least let you check to see if the names are the same. This will not find any of the same author but different title that might have been entered differently - this will only find duplicates that match both author, title, journal, etc. To find ones such as the Erikson example I mentioned earlier, you;ll have to go through manually. It shouldn’t be too bad though, becuase you only need to look for ones that have the author that keeps getting the initial put in front of his/her name. You can use the search option above your lirbary and search for that author’s name and then manually look at each one that it pulls up.
If there are duplicates in the library with subtle differences, you can adjust the duplicate settings to find them too (Edit>preferences duplicates). I usually try it with looking for duplicates without title and then without authors, sometimes you get some close but not identical ones though, so you have to be careful, but it is pretty obvious during the matching process. In fact, my usual search is for Year, Volume, page number and reference type…
Thanks a lot you both for your reply! I will follow you suggestions!
I kept in touch with the technical support, bothering them a lot, probably. They sent me a new script to save in order to allow me to write the references according to the APA but this time it seems to be wrong because it always add a ; after the parentheses of the quotation!
They also told me that another problem is that I should enter the authors’ name in the Library like this,
Erikson, E
Mallow, S
Colin, P
without prediting them in the APA style. I used to enter them like this Erikson, E., Mallow, S., & Colin, P., all in the same raw!
@leanne wrote:
If there are duplicates in the library with subtle differences, you can adjust the duplicate settings to find them too (Edit>preferences duplicates). I usually try it with looking for duplicates without title and then without authors, sometimes you get some close but not identical ones though, so you have to be careful, but it is pretty obvious during the matching process. In fact, my usual search is for Year, Volume, page number and reference type…
oh yeah. one author to a line, always!
thank u soooo much ur suggestion really helped.
Thanks a ton.
I was thinking that I have vanished when saw my Endnote is not working even i add new referrence.