Using EndNote for collaboration

The use of EndNote for collaborative research projects raises a number of issues. The University of Queensland has added a useful summary of the various options for collaborative use of EndNote, to its FAQs page at:
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/endnote/collaboration.html

Displaying corporate authors using the APA 5th output style

Corporate or institutional authors are normally entered in an EndNote record with a comma after the authors name, ie.



The APA 5th output style in EndNote will then display this reference in the form:
American Psychological Association (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

But, the APA manual (American Psychological Association, 2001) requires the use of a full stop after the authors name, ie.
American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

This can be achieved by including a full stop after the authors name, but before the comma, eg. American Psychological Association., in the EndNote record. However, the full stop will then also appear in the in-text citation when you use the EndNote cite-while-you-write (CWYW) function, ie. (American Psychological Association., 2001).

The resulting in-text citation can then be edited to remove the full stop. You might be editing the in-text citation anyway, in order to include an acronym in place of the full name of the corporate author - see http://endnoteblogcsu.blogspot.com/search/label/acronyms for details.