Journal Name Fields

The Journal field is automatically set up to work with the Journals term list. This means that the Journals list is updated as you add new journal names to your references, and EndNote will use this list to facilitate data entry by suggesting journal names as you enter them into the Journal field.

The Journal fields (in the Journal Article reference type) can be used with the Journals term list to allow for multiple formats of a journal name to be used in your bibliographies, depending on the format required (see Creating Bibliographies with Journal Abbreviations). When the different forms of the journal name are entered into the Journals term list, all it takes to change the format of your journal names in a bibliography is one change in the style used (see Journal Names). All of the appropriate substitutions are made when the bibliography is created.

EndNote includes several predefined journal lists in the Terms folder. If you would like to use these lists, you should import them into your Journals list as described in Loading Supplied Journal Abbreviations.

The Journal Field

When using a Journals term list, new contents in the Journal field will be interpreted as a full journal name and added to the list as such. If an entry shows up in red, the name has not been used in the Journals term list before.

The Alternate Journal Field

When using a Journals term list, new contents in the Alternate Journal field will be interpreted as the journal abbreviation and added to the list as such.

The Journals Terms List

If EndNote has a predefined journals term list for your area of study, importing it when you create your library will eliminate many problems.

Some databases export the full journal name, some export the abbreviation, and some export both. If the term list is automatically updated from references where the names are not consistent in the Journal and Alternate Journal fields, EndNote will be unable to create a bibliography where the journal name formats are consistent. EndNote will not add a new name if that name already exists anywhere in the term list, so having an abbreviation in the Journal field or the full name in the Alternate Journal field is not a problem when an "official" version of the name already exists in the term list—because you imported the list before adding references!