Displaying Multiple Authors

You may have found that later versions of Endnote (X5 in particular) displays by default all the authors of a multi-author reference.

You may find this slightly annoying, as I do, because the column in the display is too narrow and so the additional information is wasted.

Furthermore, the initials of the authors are displayed, and this can be inconsistent in the references. In extreme cases you can get one author with last name then initials displayed, and then the next reference has last name and full first names. This looks a bit confusing, in my view.

There is a fairly easy fix for this one, found on Edit | Preferences and choose the Display Fields link.

Click on the checkbox at the bottom to switch off the all author display. Click Apply and OK, and the display should look neater.