Microsoft Word is a program that is used to create various kinds of documents: letters, emails, and reports. You are also able to use those documents to edit and format them.
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Word has one of the best features, because it is able to create citations automatically. When you use Word’s auto-citation feature, you will be able to automatically insert the citation details of the source you are citing into your document. When you finish writing your paper, click on the button that is in the Review tab and click on the auto-cite button. These are the citations that you must add to your document. Those citations will automatically be inserted.
It is possible that you will need to remove all those citations at some point. When you are writing your paper, and you realize that some of the sources that you have cited are wrong, and you feel that you do not need to cite any sources anymore. There is another reason why you may want to delete some of your citations. That is, maybe you are planning to make new ones. Therefore, if that happens, you should simply do the following:
Note: Always remember that you must open both your Word document and your Endnote Library simultaneously.
- Highlight the parts of the text that you want to remove from your Word document.
- On the tab called ‘endnote x9’, select edit & manage citations. Click on ‘Edit’ tab.
- In the window that you are going to enter, enter all the citations that you have entered into your manuscript so far. What you have highlighted in blue will be marked. If you are trying to remove a citation, click on the Edit Reference tab next to the citation that you are trying to remove. Then select Remove Citation.
How to Unformat Citations
Open the manuscript and read it. Just before you begin unformatting your work, make sure that the EndNote library is connected to the work that you are doing. Next, click on the link that says Update your citations and bibliography. Your manuscript is to be written on the same computer as the document. It is important that you do not have formatting problems to reformat and format your citations correctly.
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Go to the page that helps you convert citations and bibliographies into unformatted citations.
Your bibliography will be temporarily gone. The citations you provide will also be temporarily replaced by placeholders. In the text, write a list of the first author’s names, and then put a citation that is preceded by braces. Include the name of the first author, and the record number. The citation that you are going to use should now be something like this: Berkowitz, #9. After that, delete all references and copy and paste the text into your Word document. Do not be concerned about using endnotes.
When you are ready to use it again, simply select the “Update Citations and Bibliographies” menu. Then you can set all of your formatting in place.
Do not attempt to change the meaning of a citation by typing it into the text, and do not press delete to remove the citation from the document. If you do that, you may cause the document to become corrupted, and you may lose any changes you make to the document if you reformat it.
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