Excluding the author or the year from a citation

In theory

A normal citation

When writing an in-text citation in APA or Harvard style, the basic citation form looks like this;

(Author, YEAR)

For example:

Recent research in social work (Smith and Jones, 2003) has shown that...

Excluding the author

But if you use the name of the author(s) earlier in the sentence, you don't need to write it once again within the brackets.

For example, you wouldn't do that:

Smith and Jones (Smith and Jones, 2003) found that...

Instead, you're going to exclude the author's name from the brackets, so that you don't repeat it within the same sentence.

So your new citation will just look like this:

(YEAR)

In context:

 Smith and Jones (2003) found that...

Excluding the year

Similarly, if you've written the year earlier in the sentence, you don't have to repeat it in the brackets.
So your citation will look like this:

 (Author)

Instead of this:

 In 2003, an interesting study (Smith and Jones, 2003) showed that...

You will write this:

 In 2003, an interesting study (Smith and Jones) showed that...

In practice, with EndNote

Before inserting a citation

As per usual, click "Insert Citations" in the EndNote tab at the top of your Word document.

Once you've chosen the reference to include to your document, instead of clicking "Insert", click on the arrow next to it to see a dropdown menu that will enable you either "Insert" normally, "Insert & Exclude Author", or "Insert & Exclude Year".

Making changes to an existing citation

Click into an existing citation, then click "Edit Citation(s)" in the EndNote tab at the top of your Word document.
At the bottom of the pop-up that appears, in the "Edit Citation" tab, you can click or unclick boxes to either Exclude author or Exclude year.

Note that if you cite the same document several times, any changes you make to one citation using the "Edit Citation(s)" menu will only change the one in-text citation you selected and not the others.