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Kent Lind writes:
>Does anyone know of an easy way to produce abbreviated author citations
>while retaining the full author name in the reference.  I'm referring
>primarily to corporate and agency authors that abbreviate to acronyms
>
>I frequently cite agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
>Administration and would like the in text citation to read (NOAA 1994)
>and the reference to read:
>
>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 1994.
>
>The obvious solution is to create a new field called "abbreviated author"
>or something to that effect and use it for the citation style.  But that
>will force me to revise several thousand references.  I'd like to create
>an "abbreviated author" field that endnote only uses if it contains an
>entry, and have endnote revert to the regular author field if the
>"abbreviated author"  entry is empty.
>
>Anyone have any ideas if this is possible?

I think the easiest workaround is to format the paper, and do a global
search and replace in the word processor. Search for the full name and
replace it with the abbreviated name. You would need to go through each
selection one at a time since you do not want to replace the names in the
bibliography.
We are aware of this limitation, and we hope to implement a feature to
handle author abbreviations.

Sincerely,
Kimberly Mattingly
EndNote Technical Support

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