Sorting Preferences

When EndNote sorts author names and titles, you can identify which words or names to ignore for sorting purposes.

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

To add a word to be ignored by sorting, enter the term in the text box below either the Author Field or the Title Field and click Add.
To remove a word from either list, select the term and click Remove.

Click EndNote Defaults to revert both lists to the default settings.

Author Field

The Author Field list is designed so that you may enter parts of author names that may be omitted for sorting purposes. For example, prepositions in names such as "von," "van," and "de" can be included as part of the last name, but not considered part of the name for sorting purposes. The entries in the Author Field list are case sensitive; that is, if you enter "von" it applies only to "von" and not "Von."

These settings apply to the Generic fields for Author, Secondary Author, Tertiary Author, Subsidiary Author, and Translated Author. No names are entered by default.

Title Field

When terms are added to the Title Field list, the sorting routine ignores them when they appear at the start of the title. Capitalization does not matter for these words. That is, the word "the" can be entered (lowercase) and still apply to "The."

These settings apply to the Generic fields for Title, Secondary Title (includes the Journal field), Tertiary Title, Short Title, and Alternate Title. The words "a," "an," and "the" are entered as defaults.

Note: When you close the Preference panel and return to your library list, you must manually sort your references to build a new sort that uses your revised list.

Where is this information saved?

The lists of terms entered into the Sorting preferences panel are stored in the C:\Users\[Your Folder]\AppData\Roaming\EndNote\ENSort.txt file. To duplicate the lists for another computer running EndNote, copy this file to the same location on the other computer. For another user account on the same machine, copy the file to the other user’s matching EndNote folder.