Endnote - Introduction - Division of Library Services

EndNote @ CSU - Introduction

EndNote is a program which enables you to organise bibliographic references, and produce reference lists in a range of standard and custom styles (eg. APA, MLA, Chicago ...)

The reference style (eg. APA, MLA, Chicago ...) can be simply changed by selecting a different output style. New output styles can be created and existing styles modified as required,
References can be entered into EndNote by typing, using one of the predefined templates, or downloaded into your EndNote 'library' from one of a number of CSU Library databases. There are standard templates for different types of material, including journal and newspaper articles, books, book sections, conference papers, videos, and Web pages. Abstracts, notes, keywords (subject headings) and links to files, PDFs or URLs can be included along with the basic citation details.
Connection files can be used to search the Library catalogue, and copy bibliographic details of selected books directly into an EndNote library.
Reference lists, lists of tables and lists of figures can be created directly from EndNote, or generated automatically from citations included in the text of your documents using the 'Cite While You Write' feature.

Further information about EndNote is available from Thomson ResearchSoft

Important notices

Thompson ResearchSoft released a web based version on this software EndNote Web in December 2006. EndNote Web is a simplified version of EndNote which you can access via the web; all of your references are stored on the web, so you can access them from any location. This software is still under development, with updates scheduled for release every three months. CSU does not support the product at this stage, but will be evaluating future releases.
The Library does not propose to make connection files available for each of the databases to which we provide access. EndNote connection files only provide basic search functionality, and searches carried out using the native search interface for a database are generally more effective. EndNote also enables users to directly export the results of a database search from most of the major database services to which CSU subscribes directly into an existing EndNote library.