Customizing Bibliography Settings in OpenOffice Writer

You may be halfway through inserting citations, or you may have finished writing your paper. As long as you have citations entered in your document, you can format your paper at any time. You can reformat after adding more citations, or to change the style or layout settings.

Note: Each time a citation is formatted, the corresponding EndNote library must be open.

To format citations and generate a bibliography:

1. In OpenOffice Writer, go to the EndNote menu and select Format Bibliography.
2. On the Format Bibliography tab, change or verify these settings
   
   With output style: Select the appropriate output style to format references. You can experiment by reformatting with various output styles. To select a style not on the list, click the Browse button. To add more output styles to the list, see Adding Styles to the Output Styles Menu. To install more EndNote styles, see Installing Additional Output Styles.
   
   Temporary citation delimiters: These are the opening and closing delimiters for temporary citations. Make sure they are unique delimiters, and not characters you would normally use in your paper. The defaults are curly braces.
3. On the Layout tab, change or verify these settings:
   
   Font and Size: These are the text font and size used for the bibliography.
   
   Bibliography title: To print a title at the top of your bibliography, type the title in this text box. It will always be centered; if you do not want it centered, leave this blank and use OpenOffice Writer to insert a title above the bibliography.
   
   Text Format: Highlight the bibliography title text and then use the Text Format button to display a dialog where you can change the font format of the highlighted text.
   
   Start with bibliography number: Enter a number if you want the starting number for a numbered bibliography to be something other than the default.
4. Click OK to save the changes and format your citations and bibliography.

Note: You do not have to verify each tab every time you format. If all you want to do is change the output style, select Format Bibliography, select the output style on the Format Bibliography tab, and click OK.