Modifying Styles

Lorraine Beard &

Martin Snelling

DRAFT: May 2007

Output Styles

• Output Styles determine the formatting and presentation of citations in EndNote and Word including– In-text citation– Bibliography – Footnotes

• EndNote has 1000+ output styles • If these do not meet your needs your can amend

an existing style • We recommend you amend an existing style

rather than create one from scratch

Finding and viewing an Output Style

• In EndNote choose Edit, Output Styles, Open Style Manager

• Select the required style from the list• Click on More Info• Click Style Preview to preview the style

Output Style Manager

Editing an Output Style

• Select the Style of your choice in the Output Style Manager

• Click Edit to Edit the Style

Editing an Output Style

This example shows the Template for how bibliographic information is displayed for 5 different types of

reference.

Example: Modifying the Citation Template

To make the Author and Date superscript, first select Templates

under Citations

Example: Modifying the Citation Template

• Then– Make all changes– Click File, then Save As…– Don’t forget to change the name of the style file to

something different like MyStyle.enl

Editing an Output Style

The result: you can see that the Citation Template has been edited. Both fields and punctuation will be displayed in superscript

Using University PCs and Modifying Styles

• For the section on modifying reference styles you will need to make a few changes to Endnote– Copy of all EndNote Style files to your P: drive– Set the preferences in EndNote to use these styles

rather than the ones on the C: drive

• This is because on University machines you are unable to modify style files on the C: drive

• The tutorial materials takes you through how to do this

The next step…

• Now work through ‘Tutorial: Modifying Styles’