With a recent update, Microsoft Office 365 has added new keyboard shortcuts that now interfere with Endnote keyboard shortcuts. These are hardcoded into Word (and can’t be changed) so now the Endnote shortcuts are assigned to the same key combinations and no longer work. e.g. Alt+1 is Autosave as well as “Go to EndNote”. To get around this, the specific macro needs to be switched back to Endnote in Word: Go to Options on the File tab Click on Customize Ribbon Click on Customize next Keyboard shortcuts: at the bottom of the window In Categories: on the left side scroll down to Macros In Macros: to the right side scroll down to ENGoToEndNote Click in the Press new shortcut...Read more
To change case in EndNote 20 (for example an article title in all caps to sentence case): In the Edit view, highlight the text you want to change. Shift + F3 will circle through sentence case, upper case, lowercase, and...Read more
If you have a Library that has corrupted – you are instructed to repair it. For EndNote X9 and earlier: Go to Tools > Recover Library > follow the prompts For EndNote 20 and later: Go to Library> Recover library > follow the...Read more
There are two different ways to share EndNote libraries with other users depending on how much you want to share: Entire EndNote Library (including PDFs). It can be shared with up to 100 others for EndNote 20 and earlier versions. EndNote 20.1...Read more
EndNote currently does not support APA 7th’s approach to 20+ authors. If you have more than 20 authors, you will need to edit your reference to replace the authors between the 19th and the last author with ellipses (…)...Read more
The Massey Profile Installer is what the library uses to manage EndNote settings and files so that it works smoothly with Massey Library resources. It is a good idea to download and run it after any EndNote software update to ensure settings are...Read more
The Conference Paper and Conference Proceedings reference types in EndNote are intended for unpublished verbal presentations of papers/proceedings. These will not display correctly for published conference papers. These are most commonly entered as...Read more
Slow insertion of citations can be a problem – especially with long documents on older machines. This is in part because by default EndNote not only inserts the bibliography (as in older versions) – but also creates a hidden hyperlink...Read more
Some citation styles (including APA 7th) include initials to differentiate between the authors. This should happen when you have two different authors with the same surname. In this case these are correct citations and the initials do not need to be...Read more
EndNote uses field codes to work with Word. It is useful to activate the field code shading in Word to make the EndNote text easier to see and so to avoid accidently editing or deleting it. Below are instructions for different versions of Word...Read more
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