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The Bibliography: Layout

Click on Layout under the Bibliography heading in the left-hand frame. The first box is labelled Start each reference with. Click on the Insert Field button to see the available options. None of these is applicable to the style which we are writing.

Note however that if you were creating a numbered style, you would have to select the "Bibliography Number" option. You might then have to type a full stop and space, or perhaps type a full stop and then click on the Insert Field button and select "Tab", depending upon the requirements of the style.

The second box is labelled End each reference with. Click on the Insert Field button to see the available options. None of these is applicable to the style which we are writing. If you wished to have a blank line between each reference, you could click on the Insert Field button and select "End of Paragraph".

Finally there is an option for a Hanging Indent. Look at the bibliography in the sample paper, and you will notice that each reference has a hanging indent. In our style, each reference is a single paragraph, so select the All paragraphs option.

The Bibliography: Sort Order

We now have to specify the order in which references will be arranged in the bibliography. Examine the bibliography in the sample paper. Clearly it is sorted first by author. Where there are multiple references by the same author, it is not clear if they are sorted by Year or by Title, but we shall assume that they are sorted by Year.

Click on Sort Order under the Bibliography heading in the left-hand frame. Check the option "Author + Year + Title".

If you were creating a numbered style, you would normally select the option "Order of Appearance".

The Bibliography: Title Capitalization

Look at the Instructions for Authors to determine how titles are being capitalized. As is the case with many styles, the situation is somewhat complicated. For a journal article, the title of the article is not capitalized, but the title of the journal is capitalized. For a book, the title is capitalized. For a book section, the title of the section is not capitalized, but the title of the book is capitalized.

Click on Title Capitalization under the Bibliography heading in the left-hand frame to see the available options. "Headline Style Capitalization" means that the first letter of every significant word is capitalized. "Sentence Style Capitalization" means that only the first letter of every title is capitalized.

In fact, these options apply only to the primary Title field in each reference. The primary Title is the article title for a Journal Article, the book title for a Book or Edited Book, and the chapter title for a Book Section. As our style capitalizes these titles in different ways, we have no choice but to select the default option, "Leave Titles as Entered". If the references as entered in our EndNote library do not conform to the capitalization required by the Instructions for Authors, we shall have to edit the references in our library.

If you are interested in Footnote Styles, proceed to the next section

Otherwise, proceed to Section 15

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