EndNote

About this guide

This guide contains information to help support you with using EndNote for your studies and your research. EndNote is a bibliographic management software tool that helps users to organise and manage references. It allows users to store, organise, and format citations for theses and publications.

Read through the outlines below to learn what is covered in each section of this guide. You can navigate to each of these sections via the menu on the left.

Install EndNote: Discover information on installing EndNote, software updates and training resources.

Sharing, backing up and recovering EndNote libraries: Learn how to share your EndNote library with colleagues, back up your library to prevent data loss, and recover a EndNote library.

Adding references to an EndNote library: Explore the various methods for adding references to your EndNote library.

Customise and manage your EndNote library: Understand how to organise your references using custom groups, smart groups, and group sets. This section also covers tagging references, attaching files, using EndNote Click to locate PDFs, and removing duplicate references.

Creating in-text citations and bibliographies with EndNote: Learn how to add citations to your documents and configuring bibliographies in your chosen style.

Alternative reference management tools: EndNote is more suitable for academics, honours, and graduate researchers. There are other the referencing tools that you could use as an alternative to EndNote.