A "citation" is the bibliographic information in the body of a paper that refers the reader to a complete reference in the bibliography. Normally a citation consists of a bibliography number or the author and year in parentheses:
... of the species at hand1.
... of the species at hand (Argus, 1991).
When you first copy an EndNote citation and paste it into your paper, it appears in EndNote’s temporary citation format. This format consists of the first author’s last name, year, and the EndNote record number, with citation delimiters at each end.
{Author, Year #Record Number}
When EndNote formats this paper it replaces the temporary citations with formatted citations.
Temporary Citation: {Argus, 1991 #11}
Formatted Citation (in APA): (Argus & Matthews, 1991)
EndNote relies on the temporary citations to determine which references to include in the bibliography. During formatting, EndNote scans your word processing document for temporary citations, finds their matching references in the EndNote library, and creates a duplicate of your document complete with "formatted" in-text citations and a bibliography at the end. This new document is called your "formatted" paper.
Note: By default, citation delimiters are curly braces. If you have other text within curly braces, you may want to change your citation delimiters.