creating an endnote that's only prose

ken.shadlen

I'm writing a paper using the Vancouver-Elsevier style, so with numbered endnotes. I want to create a couple of endotes that are not based on references, but rather text. To do so I created references using document as the item type, and simply entered the prose. But when I make the bibliography, the references say "n.d." Is there a way to create an entry that won't include the date, so it doesn't say n.d.? I know I can fix this manually by deleting n.d. after unlocking the codes, but I'm wondering if it's possible to do this within Zotero.

adamsmith

No there isn't.
On a conceptual level, those aren't endnotes; styles that use endnotes can have regular prose notes; Vancouver styles use a numbered bibliography and just like you wouldn't see notes in a bibliography of an author-date style, they're out of place in numbered bibliograpies (though you occasionally [but less and less] see them in journals using Vancouver.)

bwiernik

Also note that indexers like a Google Scholar specifically caution against including notes in the bibliography as this can interfere and create spurious references in their databases.

ken.shadlen

Thanks both for the answers. I'll remove "n.d." manually. (The journal editor asked for these notes).