Each formatted citation in your Word document contains hidden field codes that have all the information about that reference. This embedded reference information is also known as a "Traveling Library." If you don't have these references in your EndNote Web library any longer, or if someone gave you only the Word document without the library, then the EndNote Web tools will use the Traveling Library to format the references.

To have EndNote Web pick up the changes you've made to the references, you'll want to first make a backup of your document. Then, in the document do the following:

Word 2007: Go to the EndNote Web tab and choose "Convert Citations and Bibliography> Convert to Unformatted Citations."

Word X/2000/XP/2003/2004: Go to the "Tools" Menu and choose "EndNote Web > Unformat Citations" command.

This should revert all the citations into the temporary citation format and remove the reference list from the end of the document. At this point, save your document and close completely out of Word (and Outlook, if open). If you now open the document and format by doing the following:

Word 2007: Go to the EndNote Web tab and choose "Update Citations and Bibliography."

Word X/2000/XP/2003/2004: Go to the "Tools" Menu and choose "EndNote Web > Format Bibliography."

EndNote Web will pick up the reference information from your open library, and the changes will be picked up.

Please note that you may get the "Select Matching Reference" dialog box when formatting the bibliography. This may be because you have modified the author name or the year in one of the references, or there are multiple matches for a given citation. Please click here for information on how to resolve this.