Teach Yourself to Create Output Styles using EndNote 6 or 7

This tutorial will take you through the steps required to create an output style using version 6 or 7 of EndNote. We assume that you already possess a basic familiarity with EndNote and understand how an EndNote output style is used to format references in a paper.

As explained in Section 2 of the tutorial, all bibliographic styles fall into one of three categories:

• author/date
• numbered
• footnotes

The following listing of the contents of this tutorial indicates which sections are relevant to each type of style.

Section 1: Introduction

(All types of style)

Section 2: Types of Styles

(All types of style)

Section 3: Creating a New Style

(All types of style)

Section 4: General Features of the Style

(All types of style)

Section 5: In-text Citations: The Template and Ambiguous Citations

(Author/date styles and Numbered styles)

Section 6: In-text Citations: Author Lists and Author Name

(Author/date styles)

Section 7: Citation Numbering

(Numbered styles)

Section 8: In-text Citations: Sort Order

(Author/date styles and Footnote styles)

Section 9: Rules for Style Templates

(All types of style)

Section 10: The Bibliography: Templates

(All types of style)

Section 11: The Bibliography: Author Lists and Author Name

(All types of style)

Section 12: The Bibliography: Editor Lists and Editor Names

(All types of style)

Section 13: The Bibliography: Layout, Sort Order and Capitalization

(All types of style)

Section 14: Footnote Styles

(Footnote styles)

Section 15: Figures and Tables

(All types of style)

This section is only applicable to EndNote 7

Section 16: Testing the Style

(All types of style)

If you prefer, you can view and print the complete style tutorial as a Microsoft Word document (590 KB)

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