A "citation" is the brief bibliographic information in the body of a paper that refers the reader to a complete reference in the bibliography. A citation typically consists of a bibliography number or the author and year in parentheses:
... of the species at hand1.
... of the species at hand (Argus, 1991).
Citations can appear as either unformatted or formatted in your OpenOffice.org Writer document.
An unformatted citation is a temporary placeholder, and does not reflect final output. It will appear when you Unformat Citation(s) or manually enter unformatted citations. It contains information to find a unique, corresponding EndNote reference in the currently open library.
An unformatted citation typically consists of the first author’s last name, year, and the EndNote record number, with citation delimiters at each end to identify the text:
{Author, Year #Record Number}.
For example:
{Alvarez, 1994 #8}
The unformatted citation makes it easy to identify the record cited. Even if your final goal is numeric citations, you can see meaningful information while you are working on your document.
EndNote relies on these temporary citations to determine which references to include in the bibliography.
The Format Bibliography command uses an output style to convert all unformatted citations into formatted citations, and reflects final output.
Formatted citations include hidden information in case you want to Format Bibliography again later, either after adding more citations or because you want to format in a different style.
Citations formatted in an Author-Date style might look like this:
(Alvarez 1994;
This is the same citation formatted in the Numbered style:
[1,2]
You can easily revert from formatted citations to unformatted citations at any time. See Unformatting Citations.