What is EndNote?

EndNote collects, stores and organizes book, article, web and other citations you've found and automatically converts those citations into a properly formatted bibliography. It's fairly easy to use, reliable, and will store citations while you're searching. While writing your paper, you can use it to format in-text references, footnotes, or endnotes.

Now in Version X2 and available in both Windows and Macintosh editions, EndNote is a computer software program that you must purchase and install on your own computer. Tisch Library only provides support, not the actual software. You can purchase EndNote at the Tufts Bookstore website for a substantial discount. Or, you can download a trial version at the EndNote website.

EndNote is very sophisticated database software. It will not only keep track of your references, but also images, table lists, and figures. It provides Unicode support for foreign languages for processing and displaying multilingual text. It also supports many electronic formats for books and journals. EndNote has a very user friendly manual. You can use EndNote with RefWorks to add mobility and increase the number of compatible databases.

EndNote basics

Before you use EndNote, it helps to understand how it works. EndNote uses a system of libraries to store citations. You can create as many citations as needed in a library. Although you can have more than one library open at a time when you are writing your manuscript, it is best to store all related citations together in one library.

Attend an EndNote workshop

If you have used EndNote at another university, you will want to learn how to download from databases at Tufts, so be sure to sign up for EndNote Update class, or consult the following handouts.

Downloading from databases at Tufts

Creating citations, bibliographies and in-text references, footnotes, and endnotes, etc.


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