You are advised to create a single Endnote library and keep all references in this, rather than creating separate libraries for each chapter of your document.
However you may have created each separate chapter as a separate document in Word.
This guide explains how to merge your individual documents into a single master document whilst retaining all your Endnote information.
Harvard Method/in-text citations
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Make copies of all your individual chapter documents-you can work with these copies so that if you hit a problem you can return to the original document
e.g. 1chaptercopy.doc, 2chaptercopy.doc etc
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Open your first chapter copy document e.g. 1chaptercopy.doc in Word- this will become the master copy
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From the Endnote ribbon in Word, click on the Unformat citations button. Your citations will now appear in their unformatted state e.g. as {Baker, 2007 #22} and the bibliography at the end of your document will disappear
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Open your second chapter copy document e.g. 2chaptercopy.doc in Word and unformat the citations as above
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Copy the entire text of the second chapter copy document and paste it into your first chapter copy document. Repeat steps 4 & 5 with your remaining chapters until you have finished.
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You may then wish to rename your 1chaptercopy.doc as e.g. mastercopy.doc
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Open your Endnote library if you had not already done so
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You now need to reformat your mastercopy.doc. From the Endnote toolbar in Word click on the Format Bibliography button. You can now reapply your chosen bibliographic style e.g. APA 5th to your mastercopy document.
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Word will combine the citations from each of the chapters into a single bibliography
If you are submitting your work electronically it is a good idea to remove the field codes first.
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From the Endnote ribbon in Word click on the Remove Field codes button.
This removes the hidden coding which Word uses to create the Endnote citations.
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Then use the File/Save as commands in Word to save this as a new document e.g. plainmastercopy.doc. This will allow you to return to the original master copy complete with Endnote coding if you need to make any further changes or additions to your citations.
Footnotes
The method for combining documents using footnotes is very similar, except that you should not unformat your documents first
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Make copies of all your individual chapter documents-you can work with these copies so that if you hit a problem you can return to the original document
e.g. 1chaptercopy.doc, 2chaptercopy.doc etc
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Open your first chapter copy document e.g. 1chaptercopy.doc in Word- this will become the master copy
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Open your second chapter copy document e.g. 2chaptercopy.doc in Word and select the text of the document including the superscript numbers which denote the footnotes. Click on the Copy button in Word. Do not select not the bibliography at the end. The text includes your in footnotes, and these will produce your bibliography in the master document when you paste them in. If you copy the bibliography in addition to the text, then it is transferred into your master document as plain text, creating a double bibliography.
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Paste this copied text below the text of your first chapter. Make sure you do not paste the text of your papers into a footnote by mistake-always paste the copies material into the body of your master document in Word
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Repeat steps 3& 4 with your remaining chapters until you have finished.
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You may then wish to rename your 1chaptercopy.doc as e.g. mastercopy.doc
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Open your Endnote library if you had not already done so
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From the Endnote ribbon in Word click on the Format Bibliography button. You can now reapply your chosen bibliographic style e.g. Chicago 15th A to your mastercopy document.
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Word will combine the citations from each of the chapters into a single bibliography (if your footnote style includes a bibliography)
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Separate your bibliography from the last set of footnotes by entering a section break in Word
If you are submitting your work electronically it is a good idea to remove the field codes first.
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From the Endnote ribbon in Word click on the Remove Field codes button.
This removes the hidden coding which Word uses to create the Endnote citations.
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Then use the File/Save as commands in Word to save this as a new document e.g. plainmastercopy.doc. This will allow you to return to the original master copy complete with Endnote coding if you need to make any further changes or additions to your citations.