Endnote contains hundreds of different bibliographic styles for you to choose from. This allows you to automatically reformat your paper into a new style for example if you are submitting a journal article to different Editorial boards.
Styles are preset templates which allow word to display your information in different ways. These styles define how citations and bibliographies will look and have been created to conform to recognised standards, for example the American Psychological Association (APA) style. Please see our What is Harvard page| for more information on different styles for use with the Harvard method of referencing.
The default styles when you open up Endnote are:
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Annotated
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Author-Date
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Numbered
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There are two ways to select additional styles-the first allows you to select one style at a time|, so is useful if you are looking for a specific style e.g. APA 5th. The second method allows you to select a range of styles| for comparison and to examine style templates
To select a single named style
In Endnote from the drop down styles box
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Choose Select another style
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The Choose a Style box will open
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Select your style either by scrolling down the list or click on the Find button to search by name e.g. APA or subject
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Highlight the style you wish to select
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Information about your style is displayed in the comments box-choose style preview from the drop down menu to see how your style would appear for a book, chapter from an edited book or from a journal article
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Click on the Choose button to add your style to Endnote-it will automatically be applied to your Library
To select a range of styles
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In Endnote select Edit/Output Styles/Open Style Manager
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The Choose a Style box will open
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Select your style either by scrolling down the list or click on the Find button to search by name e.g. APA or subject e.g. Sociology
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All the styles for your selected subject will be displayed
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Information about your style is displayed in the comments box-choose style preview from the drop down menu to see how your style would appear for a book,. chapter from an edited book or from a journal article
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Either click in the boxes next to each style to select them or click on the Mark All button to select all styles for your subject
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Your styles are automatically added to Endnote
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Close the Style Manager by clicking on the x in the right hand corner
Before closing the Style Manager you may wish to examine the style template to see further information about the construction of the style. To do this double click on any of the styles from the style manager. A message box will open informing you that you will not be able to edit the style-just click on OK and the style template will open up.
The above instructions apply to the 264 styles automatically installed. Please see adding new bibliographic styles|, if you need to use a style that is not included.