: 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.

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.