Journal Names
Different journals have different standards for abbreviating journal names. For example, some styles may require "Proceedings of the National Academy of Science" to be abbreviated as "Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.," "P.N.A.S.," or "PNAS." EndNote’s Journals term list provides a way for you store up to four variations of journal names (the full name and three forms of abbreviations) to be used in your bibliographies.
The Journals term list that is created for every library is automatically linked to the Journal and Alternate Journal fields, and therefore it is ready to be used with the Journal Names options. You need to be sure that the necessary information is in the Journals term list, and that your style is set up to use the correct form of the journal name.
If your Journals term list includes the name of the journal as it is entered in your EndNote references, and the form of the journal name that you would like to appear in your bibliographies, you may set your preference in a style to have EndNote substitute a form of the name in the Journals term list for what was entered into your references.
EndNote provides fourteen predefined journal abbreviation lists for different disciplines (including medicine, chemistry, and humanities). If you are interested in using one of these lists, you may import it into your Journals term list (see Loading Supplied Journal Abbreviations) and set up a bibliographic style to use one of the abbreviations for the formatted bibliography. If EndNote does not provide a journal term list that applies to your area of research, you may also enter the journal abbreviations yourself. See Important Points About Entering Journal Names.
If you have not yet done so, open the Style window for the style you wish to work with. (See Opening the Style Window.)
To modify a style to use the abbreviations in a Journals term list:
- Select the Journal Names panel from the list at the left of the Style window to see the available options:
- Use Full Journal Name
When creating a bibliography, EndNote replaces the Journal name in the reference with the form of that name in the first column of the Journals term list. This first column is normally used for full names. - Abbreviation 1
Abbreviation 2
Abbreviation 3
In the bibliography, the journal name for each reference is replaced with the form of that name in the second, third, or fourth column of the Journals term list, respectively. - Don’t Replace
In the bibliography, EndNote uses the journal name exactly as it appears in the reference in the EndNote library. No changes are made. - Abbreviate Journal Articles Only
The substitutions made with the Journal Names option can apply to all Secondary Title fields, or to the Secondary Title field for only the Journal Article reference type. If this option is unchecked, EndNote applies this feature to all reference types, EndNote also abbreviates fields such as Conference Name, and the names of magazines and newspapers. - Remove Periods
Select this option to have EndNote eliminate the periods from all journal names in the bibliography that it is creating, regardless of the abbreviation being used. This option does not require that the journal names be in the Journals term list. For example, if the journal names are entered into your references using periods, and you do not have a Journals term list that includes the names without periods, you can still just check this option and the periods will be stripped out of the journal names when EndNote formats a bibliography.
If a journal name is not found in the specified column of the Journals term list, the style uses the journal name as it appears in the Reference window. No replacement is made for that journal.
The default setting is Don’t Replace. EndNote uses the journal name exactly as it appears in the original reference.
Note: None of these changes actually takes place in the EndNote library. These options only determine what information goes into the bibliography that is generated using the Copy Formatted Reference, Print, Export, and Format Bibliography commands.