EndNote
Styles
⦁ EndNote is installed with 500 styles, which can be found under C:\Program Files\Endnote 21\Styles\.
⦁ To find a style requested by a journal in which you would like to publish, see the 7600 styles provided by EndNote.
⦁ How to install Polytechnique styles and other additional styles
⦁ Unless a specific style has been recommended by your department for your assignments, thesis, or dissertation, the Library strongly suggests that you adopt the APA 7th or IEEE styles.
⦁ APA7th_PolyMTL (last updated August 21, 2023)
⦁ If you want to publish in a journal that requires a reference list in APA style, use EndNote's APA 7th style. Download the styles in French, if you need them.
Required Information in the EndNote Fields
The fields in EndNote should contain information in an appropriate format, so that the references can be created correctly according to the chosen style.
Also, use these recommendations to check if your references have been imported correctly.
Authors (Author, Editor)
– Enter author and editor names one name per line. Enter whole names whenever possible, because EndNote can abbreviate first names. If you enter initials instead of full names, type a period or a space between initials.
• Aubin, Carl-Éric
• Aubin, C. E.
• Aubin, C E
• Brochu, Miriam
• Smith, Dan L., Jr.
• Peterson, J E C, III – Press Enter/Return before entering the name of the second author, etc.
– For organizations, add a comma at the end of the name.
• Ex.: Photon Inc.,
– If the name of the organization contains a comma, put two commas instead of the first comma in the organization name and do not put any punctuation at the end.
• Ministry of Community,, Sport and Cultural Development
– If there is no information provided about the author, leave the field empty.
– The newly entered names appear in red. As these names are included in the index of authors, they will be displayed in black.
Year, Year of Conference
– Enter only the publication year (4 figures).
• 2011
Title
– Enter the full title of the document without capital letters.
• Integrated microstrip and rectangular waveguide in planar form
Journal
– Capitalize the English journal titles. (Write an uppercase letter at the beginning of each word of the name of the journal, except for little words such as a, an, the, but, as, if, and, or, nor, or prepositions, regardless of their length.)
• Journal of Applied Physics
– Do not put a period at the end of the title and do not press Enter/Return.
Place Published
– Enter the city and the abbreviation of the province or state (for Canada and the United States) or the city and the country (for other countries) where the document was published.
• Montreal, QC
• Paris, France
Publisher
– Enter the publisher name (publishing company or organization).
• Springer
Edition
– Enter the edition as you would like it to appear in the reference list.
• 5 (for APA7th_fr_PolyMTL in French)
• 5th (for APA7th and IEEE in English)
Volume, Issue
– Enter only the volume number.
• 10
– Enter only the issue number.
• 4
Pages
– Enter the page ranges of the articles or book chapters and do not use commas for page numbers in the thousands.
• 10-20
Conference Name
– Enter only the conference name, without « Proceedings of » and without the date of the conference.
• 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013)
Conference Location
– Enter the city and the abbreviation of the province or state (for Canada and the United States) or the city and the country (for other countries).
• Montreal, QC
• Paris, France
DOI
– Enter only the DOI (a unique ID for locating a digital version of a document).
• 10.1002/mrm.22279
URL
– Enter the URL (the address of the web page) used to locate the specific document.
• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=00914305
Name of Database
– Enter the name of the database in which the document was found.
• Compendex
Access Date (optional, but recommended for wikis)
– Enter the date when you accessed the resource as:
• day, non-abbreviated month, and year for the styles in French: 6 juin 2010
• month, day, and year for the styles in English: June 6, 2010
Examples of information in EndNote for several types of documents, according to the APA7th_fr_PolyMTL style
Note: This information in the EndNote fields will also produce good references according to the IEEE_fr_PolyMTL and IEEE styles.
However, book titles in English should be capitalized for IEEE.
⦁ For 21 authors and more, APA requires listing in the references the first 19 authors ... and the last. The APA7th_PolyMTL and APA7th_fr_PolyMTL styles for EndNote only mention the first 6 authors ... and the last.
How to set up the APA styles to display the first 19 authors … and the last in the references
