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Removing undesired "dead space" between citations in end notes of a bibliography

Anonymous
2011-03-04T18:56:25+00:00

I need to edit a manuscript developed with EndNote.  There are unwanted 'dead spaces" between several citations.  Usual formatting will not eliminate them, to allow desired formatting of normal paragraph without space.

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2011-03-04T20:56:33+00:00

    Are there empty paragraphs between the citations?  Click on the Show/Hide button (¶) so that you can see the formatting marks and remove any ¶ that appear on a line by themselves between the citations.

    I am not familiar with how EndNote works, but possibly it inserts the citations in frames or textboxes.

    If you google for EndNote Forums, you will find links to a number of discussion groups that deal specifically with EndNote and by asking in one or the other of those groups, you may find the information that you are seeking.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-03-05T01:12:27+00:00

    I figured out the problem.  When one is writing a manuscript, he or she does not always put the citations in order.  He or she may reference citations more than once, out of sequence.  When this happens, it leaves an extra "dead space" ( blank line) between the consecutively correct citations in the references at the end of the manuscript.   The blank line(s) indicate the presence of the out-of-sequence citation.

    To eliminate this, one may find the out-of-sequence citation within the text and remove it from the endnote format (by deleting while in the draft view of Word 2010) and re-entering it in regular type using a superscript.  This then corrects the bibliography.

    This solved the problem and should not cause any problem unless one needs to re-number the citations.  Therefore, I would suggest saving a separate file with a unique name with the changes.

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