Unformatting reverts formatted citations to temporary citations, removes the bibliography, and turns off instant formatting.
If your citations are formatted in a numbered style, you can unformat your paper to easily identify citations as you work. You can Format Bibliography again later.
Note: Unlike formatted citations, unformatted citations require that you have the corresponding EndNote library open in order to format the paper again. Unformatting removes the Traveling Library.
To unformat citations:
Determine which citations you want to unformat:
To unformat a particular citation, highlight only that citation.
If the citation you want to unformat is part of a multiple citation, highlight the multiple citation. All citations within the delimiters will be unformatted.
To unformat a section of the document, highlight that section.
To unformat the entire document, either select nothing or highlight the entire document.
From the Tools menu, go to the EndNote submenu, and then select Unformat Citation(s). From the EndNote tab, select Convert Citations and Bibliography, and then select Convert to Unformatted Citations. If you are unformatting the entire document, this unformats all of the in-text citations and removes the current bibliography.
You can tell when a paper is unformatted because the citations appear in the temporary citation format (such as "{Smith, 1999 #25}").
Unformatted citations are temporary placeholders that do not reflect final output. You can format the paper again at any time. To save the formatted paper as text, see Removing Field Codes.
Note: When you unformat citations, Instant Formatting is disabled. To format your paper, go to the Tools menu, then the EndNote submenu, and then select Configure Bibliography.From the EndNote tab, click the corner arrow. From the Format Bibliography dialog, you can enable Instant Formatting again on the Instant Formatting tab.