The Short Title Field

Use the Short Title field to enter abbreviated versions of the regular title which should be used as part of an in-text citation or a footnote citation. This is a common request for many of the humanities styles, which use a shortened form of the title in the citation to help identify which reference is being cited. For example, MLA typically lists just the author name and the specifically cited pages in the in-text citation:

(Perin 141)

But if there are multiple works by that author, MLA requires that the title or a shortened form of it be added to the citation. If the full title of the reference is fairly long, such as Burning the Midnight Oil: Tales from Working the Night Shift, you should enter an easily recognizable form of the title that starts with the first word on which the normal title would be sorted. For example:

(Perin, Burning the Midnight Oil 141)

If an EndNote style is configured to use the Short Title field, and that field is empty for a particular reference, the normal Title field is used instead