Advantages of working with unformatted citations include: You may choose to work with citations unformatted the whole time.
ENDNOTE X9 HOW TO INSERT A CITATION INTO WORKD UPDATE
Afterwards, select Update Citations and Bibliography (Mac: Format button on the floating EndNote toolbar in Word for Mac). The appearance of your citations will change and you can safely delete them in the text (using Microsoft Office Word tools like Delete, Backspace or Cut). Your existing references in Microsoft Word can be manually un-formatted by using the Convert to Unformatted Citations command under the Convert Citations and Bibliography drop-down in the Bibliography group of the EndNote tab in Microsoft Word (Mac: from the CWYW Tools drop-down on the floating EndNote toolbar in Word for Mac). Chose the relevant option from the Formatting drop-down and select OK. To exclude the name of an Author or the Year of publication from an in-text citation, or to effect other formatting alternatives, follow the instructions under Add page numbers to a citation above to access the Edit & Manage Citation(s) dialog. Some styles do not have page numbers included in their format. Important: If the page number does not appear in the citation, add it to the Suffix box instead.