Complex Authors

Sometimes, an author is more complex than a single person with a surname and forenames. For example, the author could be listed as ‘The Bank of England’ or ‘Temper Longman III’.

If you type these directly into an Endnote reference, you can get some interesting effects. For example:

Gives a reference that looks like this:

This can be solved using a comma at the end of the author name:

With a comma at the end of the corporate name, the author will be rendered correctly.

In a similar way, commas are important for single authors with complex names. For example:

is not rendered correctly....

Putting the name in the author field as last name, first name, appellation enables Endnote to render it correctly.

Again, the location of the commas is important.