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Introduction

The EndNote software allows you to create output styles which convert the references in your EndNote library into any required bibliographic format. The EndNote software comes supplied with hundreds of output styles for different journals and style manuals.

However there will still be times when you need to create a new style, or modify an existing style. This tutorial takes you through the basic steps involved in creating a new style. Full information is contained in the chapter entitled "Bibliographic Styles" in the EndNote manual. The manual is installed on your computer along with the rest of the EndNote software. It is a large .pdf file.

In this tutorial we use the Windows operating system, but the Macintosh version of EndNote works in much the same way.

An output style is only as good as the data which it is formatting. If the references in your EndNote library do not contain full bibliographic details, or if the data has not been entered in the manner which EndNote requires, the output style will not be able to format the references correctly.

Documentation

We will create an output style for the journal Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. This journal uses a simple author/date style (similar to the Harvard Style). The procedures which you will learn in this tutorial are applicable to all types of EndNote output styles. Where necessary, we will refer to different procedures required for numbered or footnote styles.

Before you can begin to create an output style, you will need the following:

• The Instructions for Authors from the journal to which you are submitting your paper. These can usually be obtained from a recent printed issue of the journal or from the journal's website. The instructions for authors for Biochemical Systematics and Ecology are available on the web, and we have made a copy of the references section for your convenience.
• One or more recent articles from the journal, to see what the finished product should look like. In this tutorial, we refer to the article by Alejandra Gil et al. "Root thiophenes in Tagetes minuta L. accessions from Argentina" published in vol. 30, no. 1 (Jan. 2002) p. 1-13 of Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. University of Queensland users can access an electronic copy of this article via the Science Direct database. If you cannot access a copy of this paper, you can still work through this tutorial, but using a sample article makes the exercise more realistic.

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