: Styles

You can insert EndNote citations into a Microsoft Word document and easily format a bibliography using a citation style (output style) of your choice. This saves you spending time entering the citation style's punctuation, italics and so on. Formatting is covered in Unit 4 of the Library's EndNote tutorial.

There are many different citation styles. For example, the same reference could look like this in one style:

Whiting, J. R., Billoski, T. V. & Jones, V. R., 1987. Herding instincts of Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaurs. Journal of Paleontology, 75, 112-132.

and this in another style:

Whiting JR, Billoski TV, Jones VR (1987) Herding instincts of Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaurs. Journal of Paleontology 75:112-132

You may be required by your School, lecturer or supervisor to use a certain citation style for a thesis or essay. If you are submitting a paper to a journal, you need to use the citation style specified by the journal. Styles may have a general name (such as Vancouver or Chicago A) or the name of the journal that uses the style (Nature or Journal of urban history).

EndNote has thousands of named style files which enable it to format the in-text citations and the bibliography. You can see their appearance through EDIT > OUTPUT STYLES > OPEN STYLE MANAGER. Change Style Info to Style Preview. If a style you want does not exist:

try the EndNote web site for updated Output styles and download them to your EndNote Styles folder
or edit a similar style - see the EndNote manual for help.

Harvard Style

The style commonly referred to in Australia as Harvard is based on the 'Style manual for authors, editors and printers' 6th edition - also referred to as the Snooks Manual. There are many variations of this style so you will need to check it carefully. If you are using EndNote X3 or X4 - this style is already included for you. This style has been designed to comply with the Harvard Referencing Guide produced by the Academic Language and Learning team at the University of Adelaide. If you are using an earlier version of EndNote you will need to save it to your styles folder so you can use it from within EndNote. Download a copy of Harvard UofA (Style Manual Australia 6th edn).

APA 6th edition

This style is included with EndNote X4 and is based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Update to EndNote X4 if you need to use this style. An amended version of this style known as APA 6th UofA can be downloaded into your EndNote library (see instructions as for Harvard Style above). This style has been amended to comply with the APA Referencing Guide produced by the Academic Language and Learning team at the University of Adelaide.
N.B. This style is very complex so refer to the Publication Manual for full details. Issue numbers of journals are not always included - these need to be manually deleted from your references in your EndNote library.

If you are not familiar with the idea of citing references in an essay or thesis, look at some of the sources in Essay and thesis writing style guides.