The main advantage of using EndNote is that it automatically can help you citing and creating a bibliography when you are writing your text in Word. The texts can be read directly in EndNote, where you are able to highlight and comment in the texts as well. In this way you will always have access to your texts. You can save your texts, the files that matches your references in EndNote. Or notes about why a specific theory maybe cannot be used in your assignment. This could be notes about on which page you have found something relevant for you.

You can add your own notes and comments to your references. You can create folders containing sources used for a specific article, a specific assignment, a specific subject.

You can use EndNote profitably to organise your references. EndNote organises and keeps track of your references for you. In this way you will always have information about your sources at hand and you do not have to re-order a book because you forgot to make a note about a publication year, a specific page number or something else. You create a library in which you store data about your references. Read more about this in EndNote's knowledge base. If you add text manually in your citations in Word these will be deleted the next time EndNote updates your citations and your bibliography. If you wish to add text or page numbers in your citations in your running text you have to use the function 'Edit & Manage Citation(s)' in your EndNote plugin in Word.If you encounter any errors in your bibliography which EndNote has generated, you have to go to your EndNote library to that specific reference and correct it - not in your Word document.To get Word to use the references in your EndNote library you have to use the plugin that is installed automatically together with EndNote (Cite While You Write (CWYW)).It might be an advantage to you to export references directly when you are searching literature in several places anyway. From most databases and search engines you can export references directly in to EndNote.EndNote recommends that you DO NOT save your EndNote library to the cloud (Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, Box Sync, Google Drive, iCloud, etc.).

Save your EndNote library locally on your computer.When you have downloaded and installed EndNote you can find help on how to get off to at good start by using one of the guides we have listed on our page.

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