2. Topics
• EndNote – what ? Why?
• Other citation utility/reference management software
• Important terms
• EndNote Basic (Web)- Getting started
• Collect- online search, new reference, import
reference
• Organize - manage groups
• Format – bibliography, Plug-ins, CWYW, formatting
• Rules for manual entry
• PUBMed, Google Scholar, ProQuest, EBSCO
database search
and export/import citation
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3. What?
About EndNote
• What is EndNote?
– It is a software from Thomson Reuters and help
you to write your scholarly articles.
– EndNote is an online search tool
– EndNote is a reference and figure database
– EndNote is a bibliography and manuscript maker
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4. WHY?
Why we use Endnote?
– Save time and focus on your research
– You have your own library/database
– Access hundreds of remote bibliographic
databases
– Create instant bibliographies in manuscript
– Bibliographic styles more than 5,600
– Organize image, PDF or other files
– No/very little chance of error
– Unlimited number of references
– Change sequence automatically
– Change references style in only one click
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6. Why referencing?
Why reference?
• to show that you have read
• to show what you have read
• to enable the reader to locate the sources
mentioned in your paper
• to acknowledge your sources and avoid
plagiarism
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7. Uses
Use EndNote for bibliographies and
citations
EndNote organizes citations from
journals, books, websites,
databases, government
documents and most of what you
want to cite
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82. Rules for manual entry
• Author:
– Last name, first name (Calvert, Philip or
Calvert, P)
• Calvert, P (P will be considered as first name)
– Direct Name (Philip Calvert)
– Each author on his/her own line
– Corporate authors need a comma at the end
• World Health Organization, Geneva
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83. Title
– Don’t put punctuation at the end
– Don’t italicize
– NOTE: Endnote will not change capitalization
• General
– Don’t put extra information (eds., vol., page)
– Change things to see its output!
• Keywords
– Use Line breaks, semicolon or back slash as
separator
– Don’t use comma
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