A document that I have been working on has an Endnote library file (.enl) attached to it. Today I have made some changes to the library file and then clicked the “Update citations and bibliography” button in Word to make the changes visible in the reference list at the end of the document. However, the reference list stays exactly the same, without the entries changing to reflect what is now in the Endnote library. Why is this happening?
Also, how can one control which document a given Endnote library is attached to? It could be that, for some reason, my library is not attached to the document anymore, and perhaps this is why no changes are made when I update citations in the document.
Thanks Leanne, I’ve unformatted and reformatted everything back again, but the latter operation brings up a “Select matching reference” window for each individual in-text citation. This process of reassigning references to in-text citations is not only painstakingly slow (with hundreds of in-text citations in my document, this whole thing would take hours) but also leaves some in-text citations in their temporary form, with no corresponding reference presented for them in the lower (white) part of the window.
This being said, however, this workaround seems to fix the problem of the library edits not being reflected in the references list. I just wish there were a faster way of doing it, because I really would not want to spend hours doing this chore just because of an Endnote bug…
I see! There may have been a mix-up then, I’m not sure. How can I see what library (.ENL file) a certain Word document is associated with, and also vice-versa, how can I see to what document a given library file belongs to?
This is all becoming very complicated… In the Edit Citation-type dialogs, what I have written below is “Traveling library”, as you said. Actually, I think I used to “export to traveling library” command some time ago, since I had lost the file containing the original library. I think this is when all the problems began, because EndNote does not allow you to clearly define what document goes with what library.
I tried fixing all the in-text citations one by one (after unformatting/reformatting), but it is just too much time - plus, since many authors have more than one paper out in the same year, the suggestions that EndNote gives me in the “Select matching reference” windoware not enough so I have to go and find which is the correct reference.
What is strange is that, if I add a new reference to my library, and then use a citation to it in-text, the new reference is added to the list at the end of the document. Therefore the library is not “unlinked” to the document, but - and this is really the problem - the existing references are not updated in the list when I edit them in EndNote. I am at my wit’s end…
Could someone please help on my last post? I am really confused why changes in my library are reflected in the references in list when I *add* a new reference, but not when I *change* an existing one. What can I do to make it also react to library edits of the latter type? Many thanks for any suggestions.
I have had this exact same problem. I have even deleted the citation in the text and replaced it, and it still wont update the change!!! I have unformatted and reformatted and it still wont update the change!!
It is a real problem. Can anyone help? It is really a very strange problem. It is as if endnote has created a memory and just can’t change it in the reference.
very unfortunately I have the same problem as above: I tried all of your suggestions in order to update bibliography and citations after modifying respective fields in my Endnote Web library… it is not working at all.
It does seem a debug in Endnote Web… Any news on the topic, please?