footnote citation trouble

> I'm having some difficulty with footnote citations for
journal 
> articles.  I'm using a modified form of the
Endnote-supplied Chicago 
> 15th A (I've used asterisks in lieu of the normal
symbol for link adjacent text):
> Author. "Title." `Review of`*Reviewed
Item.|*Type of 
>
Article.|*Journal|*Volume|,*no.*Issue|*(|Date*|Year)|Pages|.*Alte
rna
> te
> Journal|,*URL|*(accessed*Reprint Edition)|. 
> The crux of the problem seems to lie with the
*|(|Date*|Year) section 
> of the style.  When the shortened form of the citation
appears in the 
> footnotes due to a repeated citation, the citation ends
with:
> ,"  (
> as opposed to the correct: 
> ," 

The "floating bracket" is an old problem with
EndNote footnote styles. The solution is usually to put
forced separation around all the brackets, e.g. 
 |(|Date*|Year|)|

I don't know why this works, but it usually does. I
haven't tested it in more recent versions of EndNote.


John East
University of Queensland Library
Email: john.eastuq.edu.au