When you look at a filter, you will notice that some of the templates contain information other than EndNote field names. For EndNote to identify which data should go into a particular EndNote field, you must include punctuation and any literal text or spaces that appear in your data file. Punctuation and literal text act as delimiters allowing EndNote to parse the data into multiple EndNote fields. None of these "delimiters" actually gets imported into an EndNote library, they merely serve as guides for EndNote to correctly import the data.
Here is an example of a data file’s source line (SO:) where, in addition to punctuation, there is literal text such as "v", "n" and "p" preceding the data:
SO: Youth Theatre Journal. v6 n4 p3-6
The "v", "n" and "p" are considered literal text because they are not EndNote field names; they represent the literal text from the data file that precedes the data that you want to import. In this particular source line, there are four different pieces of information: the journal name, volume, issue, and pages. To help EndNote determine when one field ends and the next one begins, you must insert the literal text, punctuation, and spaces found in the data file next to the appropriate field name.
As a result, the above SO: tag line should be represented in a filter like this:
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Tag |
Field(s) |
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SO: |
Journal. vVolume |
In some databases, you may find lines of data that include a word that is also an EndNote field name. The following source line contains the word "pages" before the page numbers:
SO: Town-planning-review. vol. 62, no. 4, pages461-469.
If entered into the filter, EndNote would normally interpret the word "pages" as a field name. (This is true whether you type it in the filter or insert it using the Insert Field list.) To force EndNote to read a field’s name as literal text, surround the name with accent grave characters, as in `pages`. The accent grave character is found in the upper left corner, under the tilde (~) key of the keyboard. To match the SO: line shown above, the source line in the filter should appear as:
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Tag |
Field(s) |
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SO: |
Journal. vol. Volume, no. Issue, ` |