Formatting the Bibliography and/or Changing Bibliography Settings (OpenOffice.org Writer)

You may be halfway through inserting citations, or you may have finished writing your paper. As long as you have citations entered in your document, you can format your paper at any time. You can reformat after adding more citations or to change the style or layout settings.

Note: Each time a citation is formatted, the corresponding EndNote library must be open.

To format citations and generate a bibliography:

  1. In OpenOffice.org Writer, go to the EndNote menu and select Format Bibliography.

  2. On the Format Bibliography tab, change or verify these settings

    With output style
    :  Select the appropriate output style to format references. You can experiment by reformatting with various output styles. To add more output styles to the list, see Adding Styles to the Output Styles Menu.

    Temporary citation delimiters
    :  These are the opening and closing delimiters for temporary citations. Make sure they are unique delimiters, and not characters you would normally use in your paper. The defaults are curly braces.

    Link in-text citations to references in the bibliography:  This option is selected by default. Clear the selection to remove linked in-text citations from the bibliography of your paper.

    Underline linked in-text citations: Select this option to add underlines to in-text citations. Clear the check box to remove underlines from in-text citations in your paper. This option is only available if the "Linked in-text citation to reference in the bibliography" check box is selected.

  3. On the Layout tab, change or verify these settings:

    Font and Size
    :   These are the text font and size used for the bibliography.

    Bibliography title
    :  To print a title at the top of your bibliography, type the title in this text box.

    Text Format
    :   Highlight the bibliography title text and then use the Text Format button to display a dialog where you can change the format of the highlighted text.

    Start with bibliography number
    :  Enter a starting reference number if you want to number your bibliography.

  4. Click OK to save changes and format your citations and bibliography.

Note: You do not have to verify each tab every time you format. If all you want to do is change the output style, select Format Bibliography, select the output style on the Format Bibliography tab, and click OK.