trouble editing output styles for footnotes

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I’ve had a simple but stubborn problem for some time, and hope someone has a quick fix… I’m using EndNote 5 and can’t fine tune the output style for the footnotes in Turabian as I’d like to. For example, I have many book references where I have only the author and title fields filled. When it appears as a footnote, there is a space after in the book title in the reference, so when I insert the comma and page number after it, there is a space between the title and my comma. I’ve done the trial and error thing, to no avail.

If there isn’t a quick fix to this - and I’ve tinkered with it for a long time - is it possible to return to the default output styles of the same Turabian style?

I’m a bit nervous messing with it, since I’m coming to the end of a long dissertation and dealing with hundreds of crucial footnotes…

Thanks very much! Look forward to hearing from you.

John

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Well I recommend that you ALWAYS save as to a new stylename when you are editing, but since it is probably too late for that, I believe that here you can download pre Endnote 8 styles still.  In fact here they are FOR VER 4-7.  Do not use these for EN8 or later!!!

Turabian Reference List.ens (14.2 KB)
Turabian Bibliography.ens (27.1 KB)

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I’ve since upgraded to EndNote X3 on the Mac, but am having the same problem. Basically, the Turabian Bibliography style that I want to use has its footnote style like the bibliography, i.e., it includes a period at the end of the footnote citation. Since, of course, I want to replace this period with a comma - or better yet - simply insert my own comma, I’m trying to just eliminate the period. But when I do, I end up with a space at the end of the citation. For example, I’m left with Ibid. , (page number). Or: Citation , page number.

Is there any way to eliminate the period at the end of the footnote template without being left with a space at the end?

Thanks!

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Addendum: I tried simply replacing the period with a comma, but now the Ibid. only appears with a comma, so when EndNote inserts Ibid. as a repeted citation, it appears like this: Ibid.,

Why is the footnote template for “book” and “journal article” affecting the repeated citations “Ibid.”?

Thanks!

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These kind of issues have been discussed and remain  problematic.  See this thread for one such discussion and the thread it refers to.   

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I know that the developers are very conscious of these problems and that they are working on fixing them. Fingers crossed.