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Endnote is a citation and reference management tool.  BHSU faculty, staff, and students may download Endnote for free. 

Contact Mike Tolan at Michael.Tolan@BHSU.edu if you would like to download the latest version (Endnote 21).

EndNote 21, your comprehensive solution: Managing references and full-text files, and streamlining and preserving the research process. Endnote is more than just reference management software. It’s a powerful tool to facilitate collaboration and streamline research.

Your Own Centralized, Searchable Library: Keep all your references and related materials organized in a searchable personal library. This centralized location makes it easy to retrieve information, helping you stay organized throughout your research journey.

Sync Across Devices: With the EndNote Sync feature, synchronize your references across multiple platforms. Whether using three personal computers, an EndNote Web library, or your iPad or iPhone, your references are always within reach. 

Collaborate with Ease: Set up a Library Sharing team and grant access to your designated synced library. With the ability to collaborate with up to 1,000 co-authors and colleagues, EndNote 21 makes teamwork effortless and efficient.

Seamless Citation: Integrate EndNote 21 with your word processor documents to cite your references. Create formatted citations, bibliographies, or independent reference lists with ease, ensuring your references are correctly formatted every time.

How to use EndNote 21 (Windows) in seven minutes

Covers key EndNote 21 workflows on Microsoft Windows: creating libraries and references, direct exporting, file attachment linking, capturing references and PDFs with EndNote Click, citing references in Word, and changing output styles. (7 min.)

How to use EndNote 21 (macOS) in seven minutes

Covers key EndNote 21 workflows on Apple macOS: creating libraries and references, direct exporting, file attachment linking, capturing references and PDFs with EndNote Click, citing references in Word, and changing output styles. (7 min.)

EndNote 21 unleashed: the art of building/managing your perfect library (30 min.)

By the end of this session you will be able to create a new library, manually create references, and use a database to export references. 

Crack the code to seamless research: your compass to EndNote 21, Word citations, and library organization (25 min.)

By the end of this session you will be able to manage a library using tags and groups, use Cite While you Write, and select an EndNote output style. 

Revolutionize your research: Ultimate guide to file attachments and PDF annotations in EndNote 21 (35 min.)

By the end of this session you will be able to link a PDF to your EndNote library, use EndNote to discover PDFs for existing references, and employ PDF importing to find metadata for files on your hard drive.

SETTING UP YOUR ENDNOTE LIBRARY

• Create a new library (1 min.)

Showing an example of the EndNote library creation process. Duration: ~1 minute

 

ADDING REFERENCES TO YOUR ENDNOTE LIBRARY

• Manual Creation: Creating a new reference in Endnote Desktop Library (1 min.)
• Direct Export Notes: Data providers and export tips
  • • Direct export creation: PUBMED example (1 min.)
    • Direct export creation: Web of science example (5 min.)
    • Importing PDFs: Importing a folder of PDFs (2 min.)
    • Online search: Performing an online search - PUBMED example (1 min.)

 

LINKING FILE ATTACHMENTS TO YOUR ENDNOTE CITATIONS

• Manually adding a file attachment to citation (1 min.)
• Performing a finding full-text search to link to citation (1 min.)
  • Optimizing find full-text results (1 p.)
  • Note: Find full text feature is not compatible with the following providers:
    • EBSCO
    • JSTOR
    • OpenAthens
    • Wiley*
    • ScienceDirect*
      • * Due to security features implemented by these providers, EndNote is not able to download and attach the PDF automatically, however, it may be able to add a URL to the library reference. If so, this link may bring you to a page where you can download the PDF manually to attach to your library.

 

CITING AND GENERATING BIBLIOGRAPHIES

• Cite while you write in Microsoft Word
  • Cite while you write: insert citation (1 p.)
  • Cite while you write: insert selected citations (1 p.)
  • Cite while you write: edit and manage citations (1 p.)
  • Cite while you write: configure bibliography (1 p.)
  • Cite while you write (class rec.) – beyond the basics (30 min.)

• Endnote 21 cite while you write ad-on (Word, Google-Docs, etc.)
  • Endnote21 Cite while you write ad-on for Microsoft Word online (4 min.)
  • Endnote21 cite while you write ad-on for Google Docs (4 min.)
  • Endnote Plugin, Apple Pages (class rec.): citing in Endnote w/ Apple Pages (35 min.)

• Format Paper command:
  • Format Paper with any word processor (2 min.)

• Independent bibliographies:
  • Creating stand-alone bibliographies (2 min.)

 

ENDNOTE “CLICK” – QUICKLY CAPTURE REF’S & PDF’S

• What is Endnote “Click” and how to I use it? (2 p.)

• Class recording: getting started with EndNote Click (30 min.)
  • Covers browser extension install, EndNote Click account creation, your Locker access, in-line search result capture, and direct multiple-reference exports, at one time to EndNote desktop. 
  • Endnote Click guide: capturing from PUBMED (1 p.)
  • Endnote Click guide: capturing from Google Scholar (1 p.)

 

ON THE GO RESEARCH WITH ENDNOTE WEB

• Discover the new Endnote WEB (3 min.)

 

ENDNOTE FOR iPAD AND iPHONE

• Endnote for iPad overview (12 min.)
• Getting started with Endnote for iPad and iPhone (class rec.) (30 min.)