Answered By: Jackie Stevens
Last Updated: Jul 01, 2022     Views: 31804

To include an acronym or abbreviation of an organisation's full name in APA in-text references using EndNote, please follow these steps.

In EndNote, input the organisation's full name in the Author field, adding a comma after the final word (the comma ensures that the corporate/organisation name appears in full).

EndNote author field

First time the reference is used in Word:

With your cursor placed in the relevant place in your text, insert your citation with EndNote. With your cursor in the relevant citation, go to the EndNote ribbon and choose Edit & Manage Citations.

In the Edit Citation pane at the bottom of the pop up window, click the Formatting drop down arrow for options, and select Exclude Author. Follow the instructions below depending on how you want the in-text citation to appear:

(Author [Author acronym], Year): This is APA format for the first time you introduce an acronym in in-text citations. In the Prefix field, manually type the full author's name followed by the acronym in square brackets, remembering to type a comma and space after the second bracket. Click OK.

Exclude author full name and bracket

The citation will be:

Exclude author in brackets example


Author acronym (Year): choose Exclude Author in the Edit and Manage Citations' window. Click OK. Manually type the acronym in the Word doc before the year in brackets. 

The citation will be (EndNote element highlighted):

(Author acronym, Year): choose Exclude Author in the Edit and Manage Citations window, then in the Prefix field, only type the acronym - remembering to also type a comma and space. Click OK.

exclude author acronym only

The citation will be (EndNote citation highlighted):

Repeat this process for subsequent in-text references.