Hi Community,
After changing the font “dengxian” to “Times New Roman”, an “Uncategorized References” heading appeared in front of the citation content. How can I prevent this from appearing completely after clicking update.
I just want to get rid of the red one! Any help?
Thank u for your reply! It is a word document, and I took a screenshot. You can see there is no title, but I found that all references were in the “uncategorized” folder… Each time I click “update”, the font just changes back to its original “dengxian”…
Your converting RefMan references? I am not familiar with the menu you are showing. How are you introducing the references into the document? Not by inserting them into the text and then having endnote collect them into the bibliography using a reference style? are you trying to use the categorized or subject interface?
If you don’t want any category headings at all, go into the EndNote menu, under Categorize References, Configure Categories, and remove the the categories under Category Headings by clicking on the minus box for each of those headings. I’m not sure if this part is necessary, but you don’t need the headings if you have nothing under them.
Then (important part), under Categorize References, make sure Group References by Custom Categories does NOT have a checkmark to the left of it.
I’m not sure how to handle it if you want some categories in your bibliography list but you don’t want the Uncategorized References header. You may need to make sure that header doesn’t appear under the Category Headings list, and you probably want a (0) in the Uncategorized References list (where you currently have a 7). You can do this by assigning each ref to one of your categories
Hope that helps.
Thanks for your help.
I don’t want any category headings. The thing is the “Uncategorized References” appears directly under “References,” not within “Category Headings,” so there’s no minus box for me to click to remove.
I added “Group References by Custom Categories” to the Quick Access Toolbar so I can toggle it on/off using the checkmark next to it.
What I really want is to set the font to “Times New Roman” permanently, so I don’t have to change it every time I open a new document. Is there a way to make this the default and prevent it from switching back?
Oh and, another strange issue happened: my instructor pointed out that some DOIs appear with a duplicated “https://doi.org/” prefix. I tried editing the DOI field in EndNote, but the duplicate still shows in the “Summary” section, which I can’t edit directly. I will embed a screenshot of this question in my next response.
Can you help? 
Sure. There are a couple of things that could be going on.
The first one is easy. The minus boxes are the two tiny boxes you placed a square around:
The other two things probably involve changing your Output Style and working with Microsoft Word Styles. Are you familiar with working with either of those things?
To avoid the duplicate: “https://doi.org” is probably a permanent part of the Output Style you are using. This is where you find out which Output Style you are using:
If you are using one of the standard/preset Output Styles, that Output Style probably automatically adds the https://doi.org, so that part should NOT be included in the record when you look at the field in the Edit window. (The DOI should begin with the number, and “https://doi.org” should not be entered into that field.)
If you are not using one of the standard/preset Output Styles, then you will need to look at the Bibliography Templates for the Output Style you are using to figure out what is going on. But that is a much more complicated issue. EndNote has lot of videos and an instruction book (on EndNote 25, but the principle is the same) that can guide you through modifying Output Styles.
Have you tried this? Microsoft Word > EndNote tab > “Categorize References” button in the “Bibliography” section> uncheck “Group References by Custom Categories” > regenerate bibliography.
And in word, what is the template you are using and does it have a defined font that is different from what you are using for the body text, etc? If you open a new document in word, what is the selected fond at the top by default?
For the font issue, there are a few places to check. First double check that in your Word document, you have the bibliography configured to be Times New Roman. Be sure to click OK, and save the document.
From your previous screenshot, it looks like you may have already done that.
The next place to check is Word’s Styles for the document you want to fix.
Check that the Style for “EndNote bibliography” is set to Times New Roman. If it isn’t, you will need to change it by clicking on Modify, changing the font to Times New Roman in the box that pops up, and clicking OK in both boxes to exit.
If you are not using a standard/preset Output Style, you could check to ensure it is set to Plain Text. Modifying Output Styles is more complicated, so you might want to review EndNote’s training or manual to learn how to do that.
Hope that helps.
This problem has been solved. Thank you~
I just need to make sure that the “Group References by Custom Categories” is unchecked, so the category thing will not bother me again.
Thank you! I just don’t recognize that the DOI should not begin with the “https://doi.org”… Now I delete all duplicates in the edit part.
Uncheck “Group References by Custom Categories” was very useful, and “Uncategorized References” will not appear again after unckecking this.
I know how to set the default font, and I can actually set two separate fonts for both Chinese and English. I don’t know if it’s because I’m in China, the template always defaults to “DengXian” as the Chinese font, so this situation force me to manually reset the English font every time I create a new file.
I think I’m good with it now. I don’t have the patience to troubleshoot further at the moment hahaha. Thank you for all your help and suggestions!!! 
DOI: Either edit your template (you still haven’t told us which one you are using) to remove the http part of that field addition. Save the ENDNOTE STYLE template to a new name, and then use that newly named template in your endnote ribbon in word. The alternative (more correct fix) is to remove that duplicated http part from your DOIs in every record you are using. You don’t want to edit them in the document every time, as it will revert back to the duplicated version every time you update your bibliography.
For the font issue you need to change first to a WORD template that uses the English font – you can save it as the default Word template so it is used for everything if that is the font you usually want to use, or first switch from the default Chinese template when you start to write an English document. You can have various templates. It used to work that you would open the template you wanted to use, and it would create a .doc file using that underlying template. I haven’t needed to do this for a long time, so not sure if it still works that way. We used to provide a “thesis” template to students when they were writing their dissertation, but I haven’t advised a post grad lately to figure out how MS word handles templates for a while. Maybe google some advice? I think you should be able to find lots of AI advice on Word and templates.
Okay, I’m currently using APA 7th. The error occurs randomly, like not every citation has the duplicated “http”, so I think it’s better if I remove it manually for now.
I’ve already set the English font as the default template, so that part is all good now. 
That means some of your records have the http in the record and others are correctly entered. still easier to fix the records once, than to fix the document each time?
I think… remove the duplicates in the Edit is easier for me, since the error won’t come back after editing.
Usually, I only cite each source once or twice in a document, and I find new references for each new assignment. So if there’s an error, I just need to fix the DOI for that specific reference once. This method is suitable for me.
Don’t know if I say it clearly.
