Using Term Lists with Data Entry

EndNote uses term lists for the Author and Editor names, Journals, and Keywords. Term lists can also be created for other fields. These lists are updated automatically as you enter or import new terms into these fields. The benefit of this is that the term lists also help with data entry. If you begin to enter a name, journal or keyword that you have used before in that library, EndNote will complete the term for you to speed up data entry.

To accept a term that EndNote has suggested, press Enter, Tab, or click in the next field. Terms that are new (that is, those that do not already appear in the corresponding Author, Journals, or Keyword term list) appear in red text.

A more complete discussion of EndNote’s term lists is provided in Introduction to Term Lists.

Note: Both the "Auto-Update" and "Auto-Complete" term list features described here may be turned off using the Term Lists Preferences settings in the EndNote preferences.