🚀 go-pugleaf

Here is my way of adding text before or after references. At first it seems
like it throws away some of the power of EndNote, but it works well and
gives the user a lot of control over how in-text citations appear. Note that it
only works for in-text citations that are enclosed in ()'s, not cited as naked
numbers.
   The basic method is to make you type the ()'s yourself. Then you must
edit your Styles format so that it doesn't put ()'s around the in-text citations
.
The scheme works like this:
   While typing your manuscript, enclose your future references in ()'s
that you put in yourself.  "Chairs are typically made of wood and have four
legs (ref) although there are some noticeable exceptions (ref)."  Then, when
you go back to add the actual references, simply double-click on the word
"ref" and you will highlight it without the surrounding ()'s. So when you
choose a reference from EndNote and insert it, it is surrounded by the ()'s
you have entered yourself.
   So why is that so great? Because you can now do things like this:
"Chairs are typically made of wood and have four legs (see ref1, but also
note ref2, pp 11-22)." This also lets you order the references just as you
want, rather than forcing the order you have chosen in the Style Format for
that journal (typically alphabetically or chronologically). For example:
(Smith, 1991, but see also Jones, 1989).  This would be originally typed in as
(ref1, but see also ref2).
   You might think it inelegant to have to type in the ()'s by yourself, but it
is really very fast, and most word processors do not include the ()'s when
you double-click a word, so the EndNote citations get pasted in very easily.
   I have a feeling I have reinvented the wheel, but from the comments, it
sounds as though some people were still walking as I was.  Eric Frank