Afraid that my remarks here will go unnoticed when choices are made about what will go into the feature sets of later releases, I have also decided to add an entry for this issue in the ‘suggestions’ forum and would ask that others who wish that this design flaw/bug/feature be corrected, visit my entry there and add their vote. I was also told that Thomson’s engineers are looking to possibly expand in a later release of the software the capability to exclude authors in references other than those that are inline, to which I heartily added my vote. When I called Thomson’s technical support desk earlier today I was told that the problem has its origins in the fact that EndNote considers ‘citations’ a different thing entirely than ‘footnotes’ and ‘endnotes’ and for that reason the checkbox for omitting the author name is designed only to apply to inline references. A client of iTandCoffee is currently writing a book and had found that her endnote references throughout the document had mixed, incorrect formatting. I consider the inability to do so now (versions X3 and X4) a serious flaw in the design of the program-and accordingly I hope it gets fixed soon.
This seems to be a thread gone dry, but I’ll reply anyway because I agree with Helveticus’ original post and with the others here as well who expect that the ability to suppress the author field work within to all ‘citations’ regardless of whether they are inline, in footnotes, in endnotes, be made operational.