Removing part of the title

Hi

I’m trying to remove extra information that sometimes follows the journal title such as subtitles or place of publication. Like this one for example

Matsumura, I., Tanaka, H., and Kanakura, Y. (2003) E2F1 and c-Myc in cell growth and death. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) 2, 333-338

I went to edit reference and removed the strikethrough part then updated my references and when I checked my references list, that part still there. Although, this part is permanently removed from the reference.

I hope someone can help

Thanks!

Did you also change year or first author?  – It may be that that citation is looking to the temporary library rather than the endnote library.  – if all your citations are in your library, you could convert to unformated citations, and then reformat to force it to retrieve it from the main library.  – if there is a differenence and can’t link it, endnote will prompt you for the correct record.  

Hi

Thank you for your reply. No I did not change the year or author. I only removed the part between brackets. I tried unformatting and updating the reference list and nothing changed

So you went into the citation, selected Edit Citation, more, went to the record shown and selected Edit Reference from the drop down - Edit Library Reference, (see image) removed text “(Georgetown, Tex.)” from where exactly?  Was it in the title line of your record?  I downloaded that paper to my library and that text isn’t a part of the title?  What output style are you using and is the record defined as a ref type: journal ?  

I tested this on my word/endnote, adding text to the title and it was there in the updated bibliography.  

Or did you do someother process?  

The (Georgetown, Tex. was right after the title. I did exactly the same. I am using J. biological chemistry . Please see attached images


This is how it looks like when I downloaded the ref as a clipboard:

Matsumura, I., Tanaka, H., and Kanakura, Y. (2003) E2F1 and c-Myc in cell growth and death. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) 2 , 333-338

Ahhh,  

This is a journal terms problem not a part of the title.  – 

You have settings in preferences set to update the journal terms list from that Alt Journal field when you import things.  You need to turn that off, as it is replacing the journal name Cell cycle with the Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) in the “abbreviation 1” column - and the term is wrong.  You can edit the journal terms list to remove that text. 

Or you may want to consult the knowledgebase article below, create a new journal terms list, and making sure you turning off those auto-update preferences.

http://endnote.com/kb/82228 

So I chose “Don’t replace” and it corrected most of the references so, THANK YOU SO MUCH! However, some of the  journal names are abbreviated now. Now I need to fix this.

 I chose “Don’t replace” and it corrected most of the references so, THANK YOU SO MUCH! However, some of the  journal names are abbreviated now but, I think I know how to fix this.

That works too!

but when you have time – (and it really doesn’t take much time) you should update or replace the journal terms list as it fixes all those inconsistancies and return your output style to utilize it.   And you only have to do it once (per library).  

You see, I am about to submit my thesis to the Graduate school and I don’t want to do anything that might cause me trouble at this stage.

Trialing it, can’t hurt, as you can always go back to “leave as is” option.  

But best of luck on the dissertation.  Hope you are using Word’s bells and whistles for auto-generating table of contents, table of figures etc.  I supervise PhD students and know how stressful this can all become!

Yes, I am. Thank you again for your help and for your kind wishes.