I kept having this exact problem and couldn’t find help here in the forums or elsewhere. This is is how I finally ended up solving it. Just to recap, the problem is:
- Often when converting between reference styles or copy+paste between documents, the new in-text citations somehow change to “Exclude Year” as a kind of default in the Formatting. EndNote should have a setting where one can define the default, or so I thought.
The workaround:
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Select all text in the document, open the “Convert Citations and Bibliography” menu
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Select “Convert to Unformatted Citations”
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You should now be able to see the {} field codes with the # reference to your EndNote library entry
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Select the Style you want to use and click on “Update Citations and Bibliography”
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Voila! (at least it worked for me, all my in-text citations now include the year)
I just saved an hour of tedious work editing every single citation (even after writing this here).
Time for a coffee.