Click Turn On or Turn Off to toggle Instant Formatting.
When enabled, you can click the Settings button to change these Instant Formatting controls:
Select "Scan for temporary citations" to turn on scanning of temporary citations. This finds and formats all citations, including those you may have entered manually.
Select "Check for citation changes" to turn on background scanning that looks for citation changes.
When Instant Formatting is disabled, you must select Configure Bibliography from the Tools menu to update your in-text citations and bibliography.
You can click on the other tabs to verify or change bibliography settings. When you click OK on any of the tabs, EndNote saves changes and formats your citations and bibliography.
Note: For new documents or documents that have never been formatted, when Instant Formatting is enabled, it is not triggered when you manually type a reference into a document. You must use the Tools > EndNote menuEndNote tab in Word to either insert another citation or format the citations and a reference list. If a document has been successfully formatted, and you manually type in a temporary citation, that citation is instantly formatted.