What is EndNote and Why Should I Use It?
EndNote Online is citation management software that allows you to:
Once you have registered, set up EndNote Online, and become familiar with how it works, it can save you a lot of time and headache citing resources when you're writing, and creating a bibliography of sources or references in you papers.
There are several different free online citation managers. EndNote Online gives you the greatest variety of citation styles to choose from.
Getting Help - Tutorials and Resources
EndNote is a powerful citation tool, but it can be tricky to use. Contact Your Librarian (I'm on the "Start Here" page of this guide! left navigation) or these resources might help:
Registering for EndNote Online
If you will be citing sources using a unique journal or professional association citation style, register for EndNote Online via the Web of Science (WOS) database. That way you will have access to all of the available citation styles
Step 1 : Register for Web of Science (WOS) (Already registered? Skip to Step 2)
EndNote Online is produced by the same vendor that creates and maintains WOS. Registering for EndNote Online from within WOS gives you access to more citation styles than registering for an EndNote Web account directly from the EndNote webpage.
If you haven't already registered (created an account) for WOS, you'll need to do so. Registering allows you to save searches and create alerts in WOS, and sign up for EndNote Online.
1. Go to the Library's Main Page (http://boisestate.edu/library/) click the Articles & Databases panel
2. Scroll down to Articles and Databases A to Z, and search for Web of Science
3. Click the link for the Web of Science database
NOTE: If off-campus, you will need to authenticate using your my.boisestate.edu username and password before you can get into WOS
4. Have an WOS account? Sign in. If not Register to use WOS - upper right corner
STEP 2 - Create an EndNote Online Account
1. Click the Products icon in the upper right corner of WOS
2. Select EndNote from the menu
3. Click the Register Button
4. Follow the instructions to create your free EndNote account
Use any email address you like, it needn't be your Boise State email address
Using "Cite While You Write"
Cite While You Write, instantly inserts citations, and formats references and bibliographies automatically while you write your papers.
Cite While You Write is:
You will first need to register for an Endnote account and login to access the Download tab. Once you install the Cite While You Write plug-in, it will appear when you open Microsoft Word.
To Access Cite While You Write in Endnote Web:
Importing Citations from Google Scholar
You can save references directly from your browser into EndNote through the Capture Reference bookmarklet. The Downloads tab in the EndNote page gives full details.
The Capture Reference bookmarklet scans the bibliographic information presented on a Web page and create a reference that you can save to a new or existing group. If no group is specified, the reference is saved to Unfiled.
For the Capture buttons to work best, you must be in a Capture compatible resource and at the individual item level (not in a list of citations). List of Capture Compatible Sources
For use in Google Scholar:
Importing Citations from SciFinder
Start from your SciFinder search results page
Step 1 - Select the records you want by clicking the check boxes next to each record or click the box at the top of your results list to select all of the records
Step 2 - Click the Download button in the top navigation bar toward the right side
Step 3 - In the Download Reference Results box, use the drop down arrow to Change File Type to “Citation (.ris)"
In the upper right of this same menu, select whether you want to download "All Results" in your search just the "Selected Results" - i.e. the individual record boxes you checked - or a Range of records you designate
At the bottom of the menu decide what parts of each record you want to download with the citation, including: The search aka "task history", abstract, concepts, substances, analytical methods, formulations, and citations from the articles' references
Once all of your decisions are made, click the "Download" button.
Step 4 - Login to EndNote
Step 5 - Click the "Collect" tab in the top navigation bar, then the "Import References" option
Step 6 - In the Import References menu, choose the file you want to upload, then scroll through the Import Options and Select “RefMan RIS”
Step 7 - If you want the references grouped together under a particular topic, use the dropdown arrow next to "To:" to Select the Group or folder where you want the references to go. You can create a new group as well.
Step 7 - When your ready, Click the Import button
When the importing of your records is complete, you will see a note in red that your "references were imported" into the group or file you designated.
Step 8 - Go to the “My References” tab in the top navigation bar to find the references you imported. If you designed the reference to go into a particular group, you will need to look under MyGroups to find the folder or group you designated
The Citation Style I Need Isn't Available
If the citation style you need isn't showing up in EndNote, it may be because you signed up for an EndNote Web account directly from the EndNote website. An account like this will only allow you to use "Top 21 most commonly used styles".
You will need to register for an EndNote Online account from within the Web of Science (WOS) database:
NOTE: you may need to use a different email address from your original EndNote Web account so the 2 aren't confused
"Class Not Registered Error (Windows 10)
Windows 10 users may encounter the "class not registered" error when working with the Cite While You Write (CWYW) MS Word plugin. This is most likely to happen when the plugin is newly installed in MS Word. The fix is as follows:
Open MS Word
Click on "EndNote" to open the CWYW toolbar. At this point the error message will occur - go ahead and close it.
Choose "Preferences" from the CWYW toolbar, then "Application".
Change the application to "EndNote Online" (this may be a radio button choice or a drop-down menu)
Type in your BSU email address & your EndNote online password
Click OK
Your copy of Word should now be correctly mapped to your EndNote account. You may need to close Word and reopen it for the change to be active.
Step 1 : Register for Web of Science (WOS) (Already registered? Skip to Step 2)
EndNote Online is produced by the same vendor that creates and maintains WOS. Registering for EndNote Online from within WOS gives you access to more citation styles than registering for an EndNote Web account directly from the EndNote webpage.
If you haven't already registered (created an account) for WOS, you'll need to do so. Registering allows you to save searches and create alerts in WOS, and sign up for EndNote Online.
1. Go to the Library's Main Page (http://boisestate.edu/library/) click the Articles & Databases panel
2. Scroll down to Articles and Databases A to Z, and search for Web of Science
3. Click the link for the Web of Science database
NOTE: If off-campus, you will need to authenticate using your my.boisestate.edu username and password before you can get into WOS
4. Have an WOS account? Sign in. If not Register to use WOS - upper right corner
STEP 2 - Create an EndNote Online Account
1. Click the Products icon in the upper right corner of WOS
2. Select EndNote from the menu
3. Click the Register Button
4. Follow the instructions to create your free EndNote account
Use any email address you like, it needn't be your Boise State email address
There are a few great sources for help with basic citation styles. They don't cover all of the citation styles out there, but they're great for the most common styles: