When done, go back to your Word document, and click 'Update citations and bibliography', and hopefully the first names/initials will disapear. Make sure they are written exactly the same.įastest solution is probably just to copy from first reference, and overwrite-paste the author name into all the other references. Search for the last name of your 'problem' author/citation, and check each and everyone of these references. Please note the extra space after John in the last one. When I try to referece a newspaper article (where there is a reporter) it puts a comma between the article name and the newspaper instead of a full stop. These four authors are all with different first names/initials, and will by identified as four different authors by EndNote. This is because you have probably written the first name/initials differently in your EndNote library. Why then does EndNote insist on inserting the first name/initials? Solution If you see that some of your citations got first names/initials, then this is probably because of this rule.īut most times you know that the author is the same, and first name/initials should not be written. APA 6th) is that first name/initials must be inserted when you have multiple citations of authors with same last name in your article/document.

Use EndNote reference management software (good for managing a large. Click here for our webshop, or email us at info (at) Ī rule for some of the bibliographic styles (i.e. APA 7th edition is our official Harvard referencing scheme and the main referencing.

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