EndNote

Regardless of how you get your references into your EndNote Library, it is important that you check your references in your library.  Look out for:

• spelling mistakes, bibliographic details in the wrong field, transposed names, unwanted abbreviations, missing details etc

Any mistakes in EndNote will mean a mistake in your Word document.  If you do notice a mistake, edit the record in your EndNote Library.

Remember, you should only have one ENL.  In order to manage your references, you can organise them into 'groups' and 'group sets'.  You can do this manually, or set up criteria for EndNote to do it automatically.  See Section 5.0 Managing your EndNote Library:

*New* for EndNote 21, you can also use the 'tagging' feature:

• Tags are customisable labels that let you organize your references however you'd like.
• You can add tags to references and customise the colour and name of the tags. 
• You can add multiple tags to a reference and anyone who you share your library with can view a tag, making tags a great way to quickly and intuitively organise your references.

Remember the EndNote toolbar in Word is 'talking' to your ENL.  If you are inserting the same reference/citation more than once, you need to make sure that you are telling Word to insert the same reference from your ENL, not a different record with the same bibliographic details.  If you do insert different records, Word will think these are different references and start adding alphabetic characters to differentiate them e.g. (Kelly, 2024a) (Kelly, 2024b) etc.

To make sure it doesn't do this, you need to deduplicate your ENL regularly.  See:

(5.4 Deleting duplicate records)