Duplicates Preferences

The Duplicates preferences panel sets criteria for the Find Duplicates command on the Library menu (that command is described in Finding Duplicate References).

To access these settings, go to the Edit menu, select Preferences, and click Duplicates in the list of preferences.

Compare References

By default, EndNote identifies duplicate references in a library as references of the same reference type with matching Author, Year, and Title fields. Use this panel to customize the way EndNote identifies duplicate references.

To select the fields that EndNote should compare when finding duplicate references, click in the checkboxes to the left of the field names.

The Generic names of the fields are used here. For details about which Generic field name corresponds to which specific field name for each reference type, see List of Reference Types. You may select as many fields as you want to make the duplicate detection more or less stringent.

Criteria Panel

You may also set the Criteria to have EndNote compare the fields and look for an exact match or be more lenient in the comparison by ignoring spacing and punctuation.

Related Topics:

Finding Duplicate References