Change the name to indicate your changes to the styleħ.1. Untick Use initials only for primary authors with the same nameĦ.Change to the Author Name section, still under Citations. Unitck Add more authors until the citation is unique to prevent extra authors in multiple author citations.Ĥ.:Untick Include the author initials or full name in citation to prevent author initials (or names) being added to the in-text citations.Under Citations, select Ambiguous Citations

In EndNote, ensure you have selected style you wish to modifyģ. Note: this will change the main EndNote program style settings on a specific computer, it does not change within your EndNote library, so you cannot take your EndNote library and Word file to a different computer and retain the changed style.ġ. How to set up EndNote to please your supervisor/editor: What PhD supervisors and some editors often prefer:Ī surprisingly common experience: Many editors and supervisors are either not familiar with the above rules, or regard them as too complex, so they would prefer to see all in-text citations as (Smith, 2015a) and (Smith, 2015b) or (Jones et al., 2015a) and (Jones et al., 2015b) even if these are different primary authors or have other different co-authors. References with different multiple authors and the same primary author in the same year:Īdd authors until citations are different:ĮndNote knows how to do this. Drop bears in Victoria.ĮndNote knows how to do this, but it does it for all authors, not just primary authors - this is a reasonable extrapolation and interpretation of the APA rules (which do not specify disambiguation in this case). the prevalence of drop bears in Queensland (A. 2 different primary authors with same family name writing in the same year: Drop bears in Victoria.ĮndNote knows how to do this. the prevalence of drop bears in Queensand (Smith, 2018a) and Victoria (Smith, 2018b).

What APA says: 2 (or more) articles by the same author in the same year:Īppend a and b (etc) to the year to differentiate citations and references. Preparing for thesis printing (or journal submission).Vancouver: changing your in-text numbering format.

Changing from an in-text style to a footnote style, or vice versa.Changing your reference list formatting.FAQ: Disambiguating citations in APA style.Extracting references from a Word file (Word's built-in referencing system).Extracting references from a Word file (formatted with EndNote).Adding a footnote from the Quick Access Toolbar in Word.Automatic journal name abbreviation or expansion.

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