Endnote Guide

Where to get Endnote for your home computer

If you would like to option to use endnote at home (highly recommended), you can download endnote from the resources section of Sakai. Download the folder titled “Endnote x1 (Licensed)  Update Patch v1.01” onto your flash drive. To install, insert the flash drive into your home computer and select the folder on your flash drive and run the file “ENX1Inst.exe”. Follow the directions until it notifies that it is done installing. When it is completed, run the patch “ENX101Patch.exe” and follow the directions to complete the installation. After the patch has been installed, you now have the option of using Endnote at home.

 

Saving your Library

Remember to save your library so the diligent work you’ve done does not go to waste. To illustrate, I have just added 30 references(with the 3 critical components) to my social facilitation lit search during my office hours and I would like to save it to my flash drive so I can continue working on it at home. To do this, I will click the “File” in the upper left corner of the program and select “save a copy” from the drop down menu. I will name the endnote library as “social facilitation” and save it to my flash drive. If it has saved properly, there will be two components that should be on my flash drive; the socialfacilitation.enl file (which is the endnote library file that contains the text information) as well as a folder titled “socialfacilitation” that will contain 30 folders (each folder containing the attached full reference be it document, pdf, etc.). These two components must be together for you to access the attached full documents.

 

How to use Endnote

If you are new to Endnote, it is imperative that you watch the following how-to videos to fully utilize all of endnotes features.

Endnote How-to Videos

 

Endnote is installed on all of the lab computers and team members are expected to store all of their lit search references in Endnote. When entering a reference into your endnote library, there are 3 critical components that must be included; the reference, the abstract, and the reference in its entirety (e.g. the pdf, word document, webpage, scanned book pages, etc.). It is important that you have all of the components or your reference is considered incomplete.

 

Endnote Getting Started Guide Document

Above you’ll find a thorough guide that documents how to

 

  • Install Macintosh Version of EndNote

  • Install Windows of EndNote

  • Introduction to an EndNote Library - Start EndNote, open a reference library, sort the library, select, open, and close a reference, and save references to a group.

  • Setting EndNote Preferences - Learn how to access EndNote preferences, how to set a default library to open automatically, and how to change the display fonts.

  • Entering a Reference - Manually insert a reference, and attach files to the reference.

  • Searching an Online Database - Use EndNote to search remote databases and library catalogs available online. This feature requires that you have a connection to the Internet.

  • Importing Reference Data into EndNote Import a tagged text file of references downloaded from an online database or CD-ROM.

  • Searching an EndNote Library and Previewing a Bibliography - Search for references and preview a formatted bibliography in EndNote.

  • Using EndNote While Writing a Paper with Microsoft Word - Learn how to insert bibliographic, figure, and table citations in a Word document, and have EndNote generate bibliography, figure, and table lists for the paper.