This might be influenced by the Instant Formatting settings in EndNote. If the braces are appearing on other things in the text as well as your citations, such as around hyperlinks or a table of contents, this may be an indication that the field codes in your document have been toggled to display. The process of generating a plain text version is so quick and easy to perform that you may wish to run it, then copy and paste the plain text bibliography from this newly generated version into a draft produced by the first method.What you're describing (with the braces on a Mac? Any changes suggested from your colleagues will need to be manually copied into the original document in which EndNote’s field codes are still running.

While the process of converting to plain text is normally performed just before final submission, it can be done at any time, but you can use the plain text version only as a temporary draft. If necessary, you can create, copy and paste a manual bibliography using the following method. The curly brackets need to remain in this draft so that EndNote will be able to identify them later when formatting.

click on Convert to Unformatted Citations.If your supervisor, editor or collaborator is prepared to accept the presence of the unformatted citations and no bibliography, this would be a very safe way to share your document.

In each case, ensure that your document is backed up. They are offered as suggestions for people who are highly concerned about possible corruption. These precautions are not standard and are normally not necessary. Here are two methods for taking extra precautions with EndNote's field codes in Word documents when sharing a document with supervisor, editor or collaborator.

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