1. ENDNOTE® basic
Independent University, Bangladesh
Autumn 2017
How to use ENDNOTE for
managing your references
Lost the references you need for your research
paper?
Research paper, thesis and dissertation
citations becoming unmanageable?
Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb, PhD
2. Topics to be covered
• EndNote – prologue
• EndNote Basic (Web)- Getting started
• Collect-online search, new reference, import reference
• Organize -manage groups
• Format –bibliography, Plug-ins, CWYW, formatting
• JSTOR, SpringerLink, Wiley, Google Scholar, EBSCO
database search and export/import citation
• Cite While You Write (CWYW) practice
3. About EndNote
• What is EndNote?
– It is a software package from Clarivate Analysis
(previously Thomson Reuters) and help you to
write your scholarly articles
– EndNote is a reference and figure database
– EndNote is a bibliography and manuscript maker
– EndNote is an online search tool
4. About EndNote
• Why we use Endnote?
– Create an online account to search, save and use your research
sources
– Save time and focus on your research
– You have your own library/database
– Access built-in connections to search 5 popular databases
– Create instant bibliographies in manuscript
– 21 most popular bibliography formats
– Integrate with Microsoft® Word to properly cite and format your
paper
– Change sequence automatically
– Change references style in only one click
– Comparatively fast as functional, and customizable
– No/very little chance of error
18. Rules for manual entry
• Author:
– Last name, first name (Calvert, Philip or Calvert, P)
• Calvert, P (P will be considered as first name)
– Direct Name (Philip Calvert)
– Each author on his/her own line
– Corporate authors need a comma at the end
• World Health Organization, Geneva
19. Rules for manual entry
• Title
– Don’t put punctuation at the end
– Don’t italicize
– NOTE: Endnote will not change capitalization
• General
– Don’t put extra information (eds., vol., page)
– Change things to see its output!
• Keywords
– Use Line breaks, semicolon or back slash as separator
– Don’t use comma