This is the most frequently asked of all EndNote questions: “How can I transfer a bibliography that I typed in a Word document into EndNote?”

There aren’t many easy options, but we can offer a few tips.

Some style manuals suggest that names of corporate authors should be abbreviated in citations in the text of a document, e.g. (NHMRC, 2003).

There is a workaround that allows you to do this in EndNote. See the relevant FAQ on our website.

A free patch is now available to allow EndNote X1 to work with Word 2008 on the Macintosh. See:
http://www.endnote.com/support/CWYW_Word_2008.asp

Note the following posting from the EndNote discussion forum:

If after installing the Word 2008 SP1 update and the EndNote X1 2008 update the tools still do not appear:

1) Close Word and EndNote

2) Open your hard drive and go to Applications:EndNote X1:Cite While You Write

3) Copy the files “EndNote CWYW Command.dot” and “EndNote Web CWYW Command.dot” by highlighting them and going to “Edit > Copy”

4) Go to the folder Users:[your login name with the house icon]:Library:Application Support:EndNote and paste the two files, “Edit > Paste”

5) Go back to the folder Applications:EndNote X1:Cite While You Write

6) Copy the file “EndNote CWYW Word 2008.bundle” by highlighting the file and going to “Edit > Copy”

7) Go to the folder Applications:Microsoft Office 2008:Office:Startup and paste the file, “Edit Paste”

8) Start Word, go to “Word > Preferences” and click on “File Locations”

9) If the Startup folder is not set, highlight “Startup” and click on “Modify”. Select the folder Applications:Microsoft Office 2008:Office:Startup and click “Choose”

10) Click “OK” and close Word

11) Start EndNote and then start Word

As users upgrade to Word 2007, some are encountering the error message “The Specified Word library cannot be unloaded because it is in use.”

Fortunately this problem is easily fixed. In Word 2007, click on the Office icon and select “Word Options.”

Then click on “Add-ins” and change the “Manage” options to “Disabled Items.” Click Go.

Highlight any EndNote item(s) and click “Enable.” Then click OK.

The latest version of EndNote Web allows users to share folders on a “read and write” basis. This is very useful for group projects.

Be aware that only the person who is the original owner of the folder can use it to insert references into a Word document. Other users would have to copy the references into one of their personal folders if they wanted to use them with Word.

As explained in a previous post, we can now make our local UQ output styles available in EndNote Web. There were initial problems with this feature, but our local output styles are now working in EndNote Web, and can be used to format Word documents.

Are you are one of those people who have remained loyal to EndNote 7 for a long time, but are finally thinking of upgrading to the latest version?

If so, please read our guide on upgrading from EndNote 7.

If you use a filter to download records from PubMed, your EndNote references do not contain any links to take you to the full text of the articles. Our FAQ on PubMed and EndNote suggests a few ways of dealing with this problem.

The Chemical journals term list has now been updated to include all titles in the February 2008 CAplus Core Journals list. About 200 new journal titles were added. The term list is available for download from our term lists page.

In 2007, the American Psychological Association (APA) produced a new Style Guide to Electronic References. UQ staff and students can access the full text of that guide online.

The APA 5th style supplied with version X1 of EndNote was amended to reflect these new guidelines. However there were errors in that style, and we have produced an amended version which can be downloaded from our EndNote styles page.

We also have a FAQ which explains how to enter data for electronic references into your EndNote library, so that the amended output style will format the references correctly.