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Chicago B reference types for EndNote
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This brief guide outlines which reference types to select and which fields to populate in EndNote
when using the Chicago 17th B Curtin EndNote style.
Always check your EndNote reference outputs against the Chicago 17th B referencing guide
for
accuracy.
Guide contents
Important information for
all reference types:
Populating the author field
Title capitalisation
Manual changes to
references
EndNote reference types
Audiovisual Material
TV series
Blog
Blog post
Book
Book
Book Section
Chapter in an edited book
Conference Paper
Conference paper or
poster
Dataset
Dataset
Dataset created using a
company database
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Film or Broadcast
Film or video
YouTube or streaming video
Journal Article
Journal article
Journal article – Advance
online publication
Journal article – Supplement
Music
Song
Album
Newspaper Article
Newspaper article
Pamphlet
Brochure, fact sheet or
pamphlet
Podcast
Podcast episode
Press Release
Press release
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Report
Government or
organisation report
Company annual report
Social Media
Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram
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Standard
Television Episode
TV series episode
Thesis
Thesis
Unpublished Work
Lecture
Company or industry
profile from a database
Web Page
Entire website
Webpage on a website
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Important information for all reference types
When entering a reference into EndNote you only need to include the basic data. Unless stated
otherwise in this guide, do not include punctuation or formatting such as colons, full stops, brackets,
and italics, or text such as In, Retrieved from, ed., Ed. in the reference. The Chicago 17th B Curtin
style will include this automatically when formatting the reference.
Populating the author field
When entering personal authors or editors into EndNote use the format Last Name, First Name
Example: Shakespeare, William
When entering an organisation as the author, include a comma at the end of the organisation’s
name so EndNote displays the complete name in the reference
Example: Department of Health,
You must use the correct capitalisation for author details. EndNote will display the author’s
information with the exact capitalisation that you have used
Example: Smith, Jane A.
Title capitalisation
Chicago uses headline style capitalisation, where all significant words in the title start with a capital
letter (e.g. Philosophy and Poetry: A New Look at an Old Quarrel). Stop words such as: a, is, it, at, on,
etc. are not capitalised.
When two or more capitalised letters appear in a title (e.g. ANZ, USA), EndNote will incorrectly
display the information as Anz or Usa. To ensure abbreviations and acronyms display correctly:
1. Select Edit (Windows) or EndNote (Mac) and click on Preferences
2. Select the Change Case option
3. Enter the abbreviation/ acronym etc. with the correct capitalisation, click Apply and OK.
Manual changes to references
Chicago is a complex style and in some instances EndNote may not be able to accommodate all the
elements or formatting required for a particular reference type. If manual changes are required, you
will need to make these once you have finished creating your reference list in Word and
converted
your document to plain text. To convert to plain text:
1. In the CWYW toolbar click Convert Citations and Bibliography (Windows) or Tools (MAC)
and select Convert to Plain Text
2. A new unsaved document with no field codes (not linked to EndNote) will be created
3. Save it with a new file name (your original document with the field codes will be unchanged
and still be linked to EndNote
4. Manually edit the references in the plain text copy of the document.