Now return to your document and Update Citations and Bibliography. 
Repeat this step for all references that have the incorrect form of name. Close the reference to save it, or click out of the reference if using the Quick Edit tab.If you have cleaned up the term list then it should automatically select the correct form of name. Open each reference (or use Quick Edit tab) and highlight the name you need to change, then start typing in the author’s name again (last name first).
This is important as Biggs may be a 2nd or later author on a paper, so if you only scroll down the list of references to identify the author you won’t find all occurrences.
Click on Search tab (bottom of library window) and search where Author – Contains e.g. NB Deleting terms in the term list does not change anything in the reference, but this is a useful step in order to make the next step easier.Ģ) Clean up the author’s name in each reference:. Scroll down to find the author and delete incorrect forms of name – leaving just one entry, usually the fullest form of name (i.e. In your EndNote library, go to Tools > Open Term Lists and select the Authors Term List. Unwanted author initials can come from the author’s name being inconsistently entered in different references in your EndNote library, e.g.ĭifferent references by the same author with a different form of name will trick EndNote into thinking that they are different authors, so you need to make them all the same. However, sometimes the initials are there when you do not have different authors with the same last name… so they are unwanted and need to be removed. Firstly, EndNote is correctly conforming to the APA 6th manual to use initials in the in-text reference if there is more than one author with the same last name in your document. This is a common occurrence in documents. Biggs, 2006) rather than the correct format: (Biggs, 2006). However, when I insert the author, it’s inserting as (J. I’m using the APA 6th edition format in text.
0 kommentar(er)
