Another really useful term list is the journal term list. As I said before, this is a special kind of term list. It has multiple columns. The first column is full journal title, and then you have abbreviations one, two, and three. This is really useful when you are required to use the abbreviated journal titles in the bibliography for some styles, but full journal title for others. For example, in the reference list here you can see that the journal titles are displayed in full... In the APA 6th style, journal titles are displayed in full too, as we can see from the preview area. But, if I switch to a style that requires abbreviation of journal titles, such as the "JAMA" style, you can see that the journal titles are in abbreviated format. "JAMA" also requires a period at the end of each abbreviated word... just like that. Now if I switch to another style, such as the "New England Journal of Medicine", we can see that it also requires abbreviated titles, but without those periods. So how is this all done? Well, if we look at each of the style settings, we can find out. Let me switch to the "JAMA" style, and I'll go to 'Edit'... 'Output Styles'... and 'Edit "JAMA"' style. If I choose 'Journal Names' on the left, you will see that it requires 'Abbreviation 1', and the 'Remove periods' box is not checked. For the "New England Journal of Medicine", f I go to 'Edit' and 'Output Styles', and edit this style. Choose 'Journal Names' on the left, and you will see that it requires 'Abbreviation 1', and the 'Remove periods' box is checked. If you remember, these radio buttons correspond to the four columns in the journal term list. EndNote is actually pulling abbreviated journal titles from this list and processing it as necessary— for example, removing the periods. If your journal term list is empty, or if your journal term list does not have an entry for the journal in reference, EndNote will not be able to do this magic for you. It will display whatever is stored in your reference itself. So it is critical to have an authoritative list of journal titles and their abbreviations. Now EndNote can generate this list automatically, based on the references in your library. Or, when you create or import new references into your library— if the references in your library, or those that you create or import have the various forms of journal titles in the right fields. Now in reality, your reference data quality varies, depending upon where you get your references. So, you may end up with a list that's not complete, or accurate. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have a solid, authoritative list of journal titles and their abbreviations for all of our references, even for those that are not yet in our library? Well, EndNote does provide that for us. A standard EndNote installation includes a number of journal term lists in text format. They are in the 'Terms List' folder, or... 'Terms' folder on the Mac, in your EndNote Program Directory. So, you can see that I have those lists by subject area... What will need to do is to import the relevant files to my EndNote library. So I'm going to go to 'Tools', 'Open Term Lists', and 'Journals Term List'. Now, because I'm going to import an authoritative list of journal titles, I'm going to delete what I already have here. You can also keep your old list if you've suspected that you might have some oh, I don't know, unique journal titles that might not be in the authoritative list that you are about to import. But, I'm going to start from a clean slate here. Of course, before you do anything with the term list, you'll want to make sure that you're working on the term list for the correct library, if you have multiple libraries open, because term lists are library specific. You don't want to delete the term list in the wrong library. Now, I'm going to go to 'Lists' tab, select 'Journals', and then click the 'Import List' button... Now, navigate to the term list text files... I'll pick the 'Medical' file... ...and the terms in that file are now imported into my EndNote library. We can switch to the 'Terms' tab to confirm. Again, term lists are library specific, so you will have to do this for each and every one of your EndNote libraries, if you have multiple libraries. Now that we have our new journal term list, let's check it out and see if it works. So this article was published in the "Journal of the American Geriatric Society" and with the APA 6th style, it is displayed with a full title. If I switch to "JAMA", it is abbreviated with periods. And I've switched to the "New England Journal of Medicine", it is abbreviated, but without the periods. Let's say you're generally required to use the APA 6th style, but you're also required to use abbreviated journal titles, without the periods, in the bibliography. You can edit the style to display the abbreviated titles. So, I'm going to go to 'Edit', 'Output 'Styles', and edit the APA 6th style. Select journal names, and switch to 'Abbreviation 1' from the list— I'll also choose to remove the periods in the abbreviations. Notice that EndNote can remove the periods, but it can not add periods if the abbreviations in the term list do not have them in the first place. So you should make sure that you get the abbreviations with the periods if you can. The authoritative term list that you import from EndNote should have the periods already. I will save the style— notice it is good practice to leave the original style alone and save the modified style under a different name. So, I'm going to call this "LW APA 6th". Now, if I go to this new style, you will see that the journal titles are now displayed in abbreviated form, without the periods. But if I switch back to the original APA 6th, they are still displayed in full. If you have been maintaining a big term list for a long time, and now you're working with a new library, you'll want to move your existing term list to the new library. Because, as we have said before, term lists are library specific. There are several ways to do that— you can export the list to a text file, and import the text file to the new library, or you can simply copy and paste the terms to the new library. Let me show you how. So I'm going to go to my term lists in the old library— let's say I'm going to export the journal term list. I'm going to highlight it, and click the 'Export List' button. I will pick a location, and save it. Now, in my new library, I'm going to go to my term lists, highlight the journal term list, you will see that it is empty. I'm going to click on the 'Import List' button, navigate to the file I just saved, and you can see that I have successfully imported all of the terms from the old library to the new library. Or you can simply go to your old library term list, select all the terms using 'Control-A', right-click, and choose 'Copy' or use 'Control' or 'Command-C'. Then go to the empty, new library term list... ...and paste the terms using the right-click menu, or 'Control-V'. So in this video, we talked about journal term lists, why they're useful, and how to copy your terms lists to a new EndNote library. That's going to do it for me today, I will see you in the next video.