I use Papers to search, download, and organize journal articles. After downloading articles, I read them, take notes, then export them into an EndNote XML file that can be later imported into my EndNote library. By doing this, I can take advantage of EndNote’s “Cite While You Write” function and let it automatically generate references in APA style (or any other style I have to work with).

It sounds like a great workflow. However, there is a glitch: the default way in which the Papers’s EndNote Exporter processes author names would output their first names as initials. That is, Jane Doe would be imported as “Doe, J.” instead of “Doe, Jane.” This would cause a disaster if you have multiple articles authored by people sharing the same last names and first name initials: EndNote would treat them as the same person and their works would be mixed up.

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