Customizing Individual Citations in OpenOffice Writer

There may be cases where you want individual citations to differ from the standard format. You may want to remove the year or author from a citation if either was mentioned in the context of the sentence, or you might want to add a page reference or comment before or after the citation.

For example, assume a formatted citation looks like this:

Hall’s discovery (Hall, 1988)

You can omit the author’s name from the citation:

Hall’s discovery (1988)

You can omit the date from the citation:

the 1988 discovery (Hall)

You can add a suffix with a page number to the citation:

the discovery (Hall, 1988 p.4)

You can add a prefix to the citation:

the discovery (see Hall, 1988)

To customize a formatted citation:

  1. Insert and format the citation.
  2. Click on the formatted citation.
  3. From  the EndNote menu, select Edit Citation(s) to display the Edit Citation dialog.

    All of the cited references in the document are listed in the left column of the dialog. Text showing above the citation shows the citation formatted according to the currently selected style. The box below shows details for the selected citation. To the right of the citations list are options for editing the selected citation.
  4. Select the citation you want to customize.
  5. Customize as needed:

    Exclude Author    : Select this to omit the author name from the formatted citation.

    Exclude Year    : Select this to omit the date from the formatted citation.

    Prefix    : Enter text here to print immediately before the citation text (spaces are significant).

    Suffix    : Enter text here to print after the citation text (spaces are significant). You can enter page numbers here if you always want them to print after the citation, even when not using a style that includes the Cited Pages field. You can also use the Suffix field to include section numbers, verse lines (for poetry, for example), or any other information to indicate a specific location within the cited reference.

    Pages    : Page numbers entered here are considered entered into a "Cited Pages" field, so they can be manipulated on output just like any other EndNote field. In order to print, the Cited Pages field must be included in the citation template and/or footnote template of your output style. This is typically used to print the page numbers within a full footnote citation. Most EndNote styles that require a special format for citations in footnotes are already configured this way. You can modify the Citation Template in your output style to include Cited Pages.

    Insert…: Select this option to search for and insert additional references to the selected citation, to create or expand a grouped citation.

    Remove: Select this option to remove the citation from the document.
  1. Click OK to implement the change(s) to the citation.