Can I Edit Citation Style and Journal’s Abbreviation in EndNote?

Last updated: 12 Feb 2016

Edit Citation Style and Journal’s Abbreviation

• One well-known advantage of EndNote is its highly customizable features.

• We will use IEEE style as an example in following slides.

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Original in EndNote:

Edit Citation Style

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Edit Citation Style

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Edit Citation Style

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It is important for you to “SAVE AS” new style before you start to edit

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Edit Citation Style

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Added “ |no. Issue, “• “|” = not to display if the field is NULL• “no.” = text to be shown• Issue = field name (can select in icon)

Original in EndNote:

Amended:

Example 1:

Edit Citation Style

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Original in EndNote:

Amended:

Format of e-journals recommended by ELC – IEEE Style

Example 2:

Edit Journal’s Abbreviation

• IEEE Style requires an abbreviated title in the bibliography list.

• Abbreviated title can be defined manually as shown in slide 9, or import from EndNote as shown in slide 10.

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Define Abbreviation of Journal Name Manually

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Import Abbreviation of Journal Name from EndNote

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2. Select appropriate list(s) to import

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Open Style Manager to Activate the Abbreviation List

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Official Guides

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• To learn more, please refer to the official guides below:

– Installing Additional Styles

– Generate full or abbreviated journal names

Should you have further queries…

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