Endnote

EndNote is a bibliographic citation manager.

What does that mean?
A bibliographic citation is any reference to a book, journal article, video, or other source that you might use in an academic paper or article. EndNote allows you to manage those citations by saving, organizing, and formating them into a bibliography or reference list in your thesis, publication or assignment.

What will it do for me?:

• Imports sets of references found in database searches
• Provides a place to keep unlimited number of article references associated pdfs, charts, illustrations etc along with its  abstract and research notes
• Inserts references into your thesis or publication and automatically formats them in the style you have chosen

What won't it do?:

• It won't teach you how to reference correctly; you need to know how to do that before using any citation manager
• It won't make a correct reference if you enter incorrect data, or enter it in the wrong place

Should I use it?

• If you are doing research and handling lots of references, you should be using Endnote!
• Endnote is a computer program and it does take time to learn and gain proficiency so you should get some training from your librarian before using it. (Face to face training is provided tostaff, honours and postgrads only).
• It is most likely to be useful to researchers writing a thesis or preparing publication with substantial numbers of references.
• Undergraduate students who want to use a citation manager should consider using EndnoteOnline as it is web based and you can teach yourself to use it. However they may use Endnote on campus PCs if they wish.

Learn EndNote FAST. This is a very quick but thorough coverage of EndNote's main features.  It covers some advanced features not covered in this Guide and is most suitable for more advanced users.(Duration 22:47)