Our medical journals term list has been enhanced with about 200 new titles. These include journals which began publication in 2009 and longer-running titles which were overlooked in earlier versions of the list.

Download the new term list from our term lists page.

A connection file for the new full-text Informit Health Collection database can be downloaded from our connection files page.

You can use this connection file on campus or off campus. Note the link on the connections page which will allow you to obtain the username and password.

Informit Health Collection is an Australian database specialising in nursing and allied health.

We have made some minor amendments to our UQ Harvard output style, and we have also created a guide to using the style. They can both be accessed from our EndNote styles page.

Filters and connection files in versions of EndNote up to X2 will not import the year 2010.

For references published in 2010, you will have to insert the year manually. See this FAQ.

As noted in that FAQ, patches are being prepared for versions X1 and X2 which should rectify this problem.

Alternatively you can update to version X3.

EndNote X3, for Windows and Macintosh, is now available for download by UQ staff and students.

Detailed information on new features in version X3 is available on our website.

The Find Full Text function should work much better in version X3, providing that you are working from a computer on campus.

Researchers in chemistry will find that EndNote styles can now cope with the composite citations which are commonly used in journals in that discipline.

A previous posting described the new APA 6th output style which can be downloaded from the EndNote website.

We have now provided an alternative way of dealing with APA 6th edition. This is a new output style which does not require any modification of your reference types. The output style is accompanied by instructions on how to enter data correctly in your EndNote library, as well as other useful tips on using APA 6th with EndNote.

The output style and the accompanying notes can be downloaded from our EndNote styles page.

A new EndNote style for APA 6th edition is available for download from the EndNote website.

The download is a zip file which contains the new output style, a modified Reference Types Table, and a PDF document giving instructions on where to save the style and how to import the reference types table.

The modified reference types table will be a problem for people who have already modified their reference types, because it will overwrite all of their changes. It provides a new “Electronic Book Section” reference type, and it introduces some other new fields, such as “Website Title.”

The new style seems to cope fairly well with normal journal articles. If you have the DOI in the DOI field of your references, it doesn’t matter whether you use the Journal Article or Electronic Article reference type.

However if the journal article was accessed electronically, but doesn’t have a DOI, you must use the Electronic Article reference type and identify the home page of the journal, and put that in the URL field.

Perhaps most people will just pretend that they accessed the articles in printed form?

There is a problem with references which have more than seven authors (which is fairly common nowadays). While the provisions for entering multiple authors in the text of the document have not changed, the provisions for the reference list specify that when a work has more than seven authors, you should list the first six authors, followed by the three points of omission, followed by the name of the last author, e.g.:

Gilbert, D. G., McLennan, J. F., Rabinovich, N. E., Sugai, C., Plath, L. C., Asgaard, G., … Boutros, N. (2004)

EndNote currently has no capacity for formatting references like this.

The most relevant sections of the 6th edition of the APA manual have been scanned and are available for download by UQ staff and students from our Referencing Styles page.

Our medical journals term list has now been updated with about 100 new journals which began publication in 2007 and 2008.

In addition, a fourth column has been added to the list to avoid problems with journal titles which use an ampersand in place of and.

A patch has now been released for EndNote X2 to improve performance on 64-bit Windows operating systems. It is available on the EndNote website.

Now that the Groups feature has become so popular in EndNote, we are occasionally getting calls from users telling us that their groups have disappeared.

It is important to remember that the groups are not stored in the .enl file. They are stored in the DATA folder.

For more information, see this FAQ.