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Forexample,atitlethatappearsinadatafileas"COMPOSTASAHUMANNUTRIENTANDHORMONECARRIER"would
importinHeadlinecapitalizationas:
CompostasaHumanNutrientandHormoneCarrier
orinSentencecapitalizationas:
Compostasahumannutrientandhormonecarrier
Tokeepafield’stextentirelyinuppercasecharacters,selecttheDoNOTLowercaseoption.
Youcanapplylowercasingonanyfieldaslongasallthetextinthefieldisuppercase.Ifanyofthetextinthefieldisinmixed
case,EndNotewillimportitinmixedcase.
TheAuthor,Editor,andTranslatorfieldsaretreateddifferentlyfromallotherEndNotefields.Uponimportingauthorfieldsintoan
EndNotelibrary,thesefieldsareautomaticallyconvertedfromuppercasetoheadline.Duetothespecialcharacteristicsofthese
particularfields,theoptiontochangethecaseisnotavailableintheFieldEditingpanel.
OmittingUnwantedCharacters
Somelinesofdatahavesuperfluouscharacters,suchasanasterisk(*)oradash(-),thatyoumaynotwanttoimport.Forexam-
ple,inthefollowinglinesofdatatherearedashesinthejournalname,andthereisanasteriskbeforeeachkeyword:
SO- American-journal-of-preventive-medicine;12(9)
DE- *COMPUTERSYSTEMSDESIGN;*DISPLAYDEVICES;*INTERFACES
TopreventunwantedcharactersfrombeingimportedintoyourEndNotelibrary,usetheFieldEditingpaneltospecifythechar-
actersthatyouwanttoomit:
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Fromthe"FieldEditingfor:"list,selecttheEndNotefieldthatcontainsunwantedcharacters.YouwillfindthattheEndNote
fieldsarelistedbytheirGenericnames.ForalistofreferencetypefieldsandtheircorrespondingGenericfieldnames,seethe
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Typetheunwantedtextinthe"Entertexttobeomitted(oneitemperline)"box,andthenclickAddtoaddittotheomission
list.
WhenyoupreventcharactersfrombeingimportedintoanEndNotefield,youareomittingthecharactersfromthecorresponding
Genericfield,sotheomissionappliestoeveryreferencetypefieldthatcorrespondstotheparticularGenericfield.Forexample,
theSecondaryTitlefieldcorrespondstoboththeJournalfieldinaJournalArticlereferencetypeandtheSeriesTitleinaBookref-
erencetype.Therefore,ifyouomitadash(-)fromthejournalname,anydashesfoundinaSeriesTitleforaBookreferencetype
willalsobeomitted.
Eachitemthatyouwanttoomitshouldbeenteredonaseparateline.Forexample,let’ssaythatyouwantedtoomitbothunder-
scores(_)andforwardslashes(/)fromyourrecords’keywords.Firstaddtheunderscore,andthenaddtheforwardslash.Enter-
ingbothitemsonthesamelinewouldcauseEndNotetoomitonlyinstancesof"_/",whileallotherinstancesofunderscoresand
forwardslasheswouldendupinyourkeywords.Youcanomitupto254charactersperEndNotefield.
Toremoveanitemfromthelist,simplyselecttheitemandclickRemove.Youmayselectmorethanoneitembyholdingdown
theShiftorCommandkeywhileclickingonmultipleitems.
Note:Themoreitemsaddedtothelist,thelongerittakesEndNotetoimportrecordsintoEndNote.Toavoidslowingdownthe
importingprocess,youmaywanttostartbyimportingthedataintoanEndNotelibrarywithoutspecifyinganyomissions.Then
usetheFindandReplacecommandfromtheEditmenutodeletetheunwantedwordsandothertext.
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