The following information about Author and Editor fields applies to the following "Generic" field names: Author, Secondary Author, Tertiary Author, and Subsidiary Author.
Always enter author and editor names one name per line. If an author’s name is too long to fit on a single line, let it wrap to the next line as you type it.
Author names can be entered either with the last name followed by a comma and the first name or the first name followed by the last name. Both are correct. However, if you have the "Suggest Terms as You Type" feature of the term lists turned on, EndNote suggests author names based on names entered with the last name first.
EndNote can abbreviate first and middle names, so for maximum flexibility enter whole names whenever possible. If you are entering initials instead of full names, be sure to type a period or a space between initials, (for example "Fisher, J.O. or J O Fisher); otherwise EndNote interprets the initials as a single name: Jo.
See Additional Style Formatting Options for information about how EndNote can use style settings to format author names in bibliographies. For more information about term lists, see Introduction to Term Lists.
Enter all author names for a particular reference. EndNote will truncate the list of authors with "et al." or "and others" as required by the bibliographic style. If you do not know all of the authors’ names, then the last author should be "et al." or "and others" followed by a comma.
If a reference has no author, leave the Author field blank. Do not enter "Anonymous." The style that you use to format the bibliography determines how anonymous references are treated.
Note that if a work is published with "Anonymous" printed on the title page, most style guides request that "Anonymous" be entered as though it were the author name.
When entering corporate authors, put a comma after the name:
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Apple Computer Inc.,
This ensures that the entire name is treated as a first name, so no name manipulation will be applied.
If a corporate author name includes a comma in the name itself, use two commas in place of the first comma:
California,, Irvine
EndNote treats this as a last name followed by a blank first name. Then, everything after the (blank) first name is appended, including a second comma in the name. The formatted result is the corporate name with the commas in place.
For multiple-word last names, like Charles de Gaulle, enter the name with the last name first, such as:
de Gaulle, Charles
Entering a name this way ensures that both words "de" and "Gaulle will format as the last name.
Enter authors with titles, such as "Jr. or III, as Last, First, Title. For example, "Alfred Smith Jr." must be entered as:
Smith, Alfred, Jr.
The text after the second comma will print exactly as entered.
Note: See the Sorting section of the EndNote preferences if you do not want EndNote to include prepositions (such as de, van, von, and so on.) when it alphabetizes references in a bibliography.