Omitting Authors or Years from Citations
While your style may normally include the author’s name and date in each in-text citation, you may want to omit the author and/or year from a particular citation. This is useful if you have mentioned the author or year in the context of the sentence and do not want to repeat the information in the citation.
To remove the author’s name or date from a citation, leave that information out of the unformatted citation.
To omit the author’s name, enter:
...Wyatt’s recent discovery {, 1993 #38}.
which will format as:
...Wyatt’s recent discovery (1993).
To omit the date, enter:
...about his 1993 discovery {Wyatt, #38}.
which will format as:
...about his 1993 discovery (Wyatt).
Note: Numbered citations do not print the author name or year in any case, so these settings would be ignored.
If you want a reference to appear in your bibliography, but not as a citation in your paper, you can exclude both the author and year, leaving only the record number. When you format your paper with a style that formats authors and years in the citations, this particular citation will not display in text, but will be included in the bibliography.
However, if you would rather have the author and year appear in the formatted citation regardless of whether or not they are in the temporary citation, select Preferences from EndNote’s Edit menu, select the Formatting option, and uncheck the setting to Omit Author and/or Year from formatted citation if removed from temporary citation. With this setting turned off, you may enter just the record number {#34} as a temporary citation, and still format the paper accurately with a style that requires authors and years in the in-text citations.
Caution: The option immediately above works well only when using a single library, without using EndNote Sync. When working with multiple libraries, or a library on multiple computers synchronized through EndNote Sync, there is a danger of having the same record number assigned to different references.
Note: For an easy way to modify individual Cite While You Write citations once they are inserted, see Editing Citations in Microsoft Word.