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Producing a Bibliography or Reading List
What is an output style?
An EndNote output style (often just referred to as a "style") is a piece of software that will convert the data in your library into formatted references that correspond to the bibliographic styles used by journal publishers or specified in style manuals such as the Chicago Manual of Style.
Hundreds of output styles are supplied with the software, so there is a good chance that you will find one suitable for your needs. If not, EndNote allows you to create your own output styles or edit an existing output style.
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We will now look at using EndNote to produce bibliographies. To begin, we consider how to use the references in your library to generate a reading list for students, or a list of references for a colleague, or perhaps a list of your own publications for your CV.
While holding down the Ctrl key, select about five references from your library.
Click on References in the menu bar and then click on Show Selected References. You should now be able to see only those references which you selected. At this point, you could sort the references if you wished them to appear in your bibliography in a different order.
Now you have to decide on the bibliographic style that you wish to use for your references. Go to the style menu on the main toolbar and click on the arrow.
You will probably see a list of some basic EndNote styles. Click on Select Another Style to open the complete list of output styles which are supplied with the EndNote software:
Find a style that would be useful in your subject area, and then click on it to highlight it. Click on the Choose button to select that style.
This will return you to the library window, with only your selected references showing. To generate a bibliography from these references, using the style that you have just selected, click on the Export button  on the main toolbar.
You will now see a dialogue box. Save the exported references to a convenient folder. In the Save as type box, click on the arrow to select Rich Text Format.
Click on the Save button.
To view the bibliography, open your word processor and then open the file which you have just saved.
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