Managing References Using EndNote (1)

After that you can fill the form, starting from author name and so on. You can write ‘first name middle name last name’, or ‘last name, first name middle name’. Both are okay. If the name is abbreviated, make sure you put period after the abbreviation. Then you can fill all the necessary fields, and when you finish, just close the reference. You have to manually insert one by one using this method. You will have list of references like this.

Inserting citation to word processor is also easy. I am using MS Word, so I take that as an example. You can put EndNote as an add-in in MS Word, so you can directly connect EndNote library to your document. When you want to insert a citation, just place your cursor on the place you want, and select ‘insert citation’ in EndNote or in the MS Word EndNote tab (the red arrow there in EndNote).

How the references are displayed depends on what reference style we choose. EndNote has over 4,000 different reference styles we can easily pick. American Chemical Society (ACS) style, for example, uses number-identified reference as depicted below.

Author-identified reference styles are also available, such as American Geophysical Union (AGU) style.

What do you think? It makes referencing simpler, right?

When you are using bibliographic sources such as Science Direct, NCBI, or IWAP Online; they provide quick button to ‘export’ the citation. It means we don’t need to manually fill the field in EndNote.

This one is from Science Direct.