Important Points About Term Lists
The following list includes useful information about term lists.
- Term lists are stored with the library and therefore are specific to only that library.
- A library must be open before you can edit its term lists.
- If you enter many references manually, you may find it helpful to create new term lists for things like publisher and city names. Up to 31 term lists can be created for any library.
- There is no limit to the number of terms in a term list.
- Each term can be up to 253 characters long.
- Terms can be copied from one list and pasted into another.
- Entire term lists can be exported and imported.
- By default, term lists are automatically updated from the terms entered in your references. New terms appear in red text in the Reference window. This functionality may be turned off using EndNote’s Preferences.
- Term lists can be "linked" to specific fields so that EndNote associates the correct term list with the field you are editing.
- Term lists can be used with the "Auto-entry" feature on or off. By default, this option is turned on so that EndNote will suggest the closest matching term as you type in a reference.
- The Journals term list stores various forms of journal names that can be used when creating bibliographies. EndNote provides fourteen Journals lists (including Humanities, Medical, and Chemistry) that can be imported for use with your EndNote libraries. Look in the \\EndNote 2025\Terms Lists folder.
- By default, the installed Journal term list is linked to the Journal Article reference type.
- There are several fields associated with the Authors term list. They include the Primary Author, Secondary Author, Tertiary Author, Subsidiary Author, and Translated Author fields. You can associate additional fields to the Author term list if you require them.
- The Keywords term list is associated with the Keywords field in an EndNote reference. You can associate additional fields with the Keyword term list if you require them.