More than 200,000 researchers, scholarly writers, students, and librarians use EndNote to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, and create bibliographies instantly and automatically. Instead of spending hours typing bibliographies, or using index cards to organize their references, they do it the easy way -- by using EndNote! EndNote for Windows and Macintosh is a valuable all-in-one tool that integrates the following tasks into one program.

Features

Create an unlimited number of databases
In EndNote, bibliographic data is entered into a record by filling out a simple template that has the proper fields displayed for a given type of reference. EndNote has 17 customizable reference types including journal article, book, electronic source, and conference proceedings, with up to 30 fields for entering data, including abstract and notes. You can customize the reference types to add fields of your own. Each EndNote database can store up to 32,000 references.

Includes more than 100 import filters
There are many sources of bibliographic data that can be used to help you build your EndNote database of references. EndNote includes more than 100 customizable import filters for a variety of online and CD-ROM database providers (e.g. Dialog, SilverPlatter). You can create your own import filters as well. Once you've downloaded the references in a tagged format, choose the appropriate import filter to import the data into your EndNote database.

Please Note
If you have access to a library catalog or bibliographic database that supports the Z39.50 protocol, you can use EndNote to search and retrieve references directly into EndNote. This removes the need to learn a separate program to access online databases or go through extra steps of saving the references to a text file and importing them into EndNote. EndNote includes more than 100 connection files to access and search online databases.

Launch a web browser
EndNote records include a URL field to store World Wide Web addresses. This allows you to store a web page within your EndNote record, providing a virtual map to full-text online information. By selecting the Launch URL... command, you can automatically start your web browser (e.g. Navigator, Internet Explorer) and link to online journals, full-text articles, or any other web address stored within your EndNote record. Your EndNote database now becomes the card catalog of the electronic library.

Term Lists
For consistent data entry in your EndNote database, you can maintain lists of important terms such as journals, authors, and keywords. Term Lists store glossaries of keywords, author names, or any other terms that are important to managing your references. You can use these lists when entering reference information to ensure that terms are entered in a consistent way. Term Lists can be linked to different fields and then called up instantly when you are typing into a particular field. This feature also speeds up data entry since terms can be instantly transferred into a record.

Term lists can also be accessed when using EndNote's Search command so that you will be sure to search for the same terms that you have entered in your references. You can create up to 31 Term Lists, and each list can hold thousands of names or terms. A special case term list for journals is designed to handle journal names and abbreviations.

Searching
The Search... command in EndNote offers a high degree of flexibility and control in designing searches. You can limit your searches to specific fields such as Author name, Year, or Keywords. You can also choose a general search, one that searches on all fields in a database.

Global Editing
Use the Change Text and Change Field commands to modify existing references. EndNote's Change Text and Change Field features help you to keep a clean and organized library. These commands can automatically add a term to all or some of your references. These are useful tools for labeling groups of references as well as for fixing common typos or spelling mistakes.

The Change Text ... command searches for text in your references, and either deletes or replaces it with other text. For example, you can use this command to search for a misspelled word and replace it with the correct spelling. The Change Field... command can insert text at the beginning or end of the field, replace the contents of the field with other text, or delete the entire contents of the field. For example, you can use this command to add "Reprint on File" to the Notes field of a set of references.

Sorting
In EndNote, you can sort references on any fields you choose such as Year, Journal, Title, or Label. You can sort on up to five fields in either ascending or descending order. You can also specify a custom sort order for a bibliographic style and for multiple in-text citations.

Display Font
EndNote allows you to choose a font and size for the Library window display. You may choose a smaller font if you would like to see more of the titles in the Library window, or select a font that makes the references more readable for you. In addition, you can choose the font and size for text typed into records. The font and size selected for display will not affect the actual font of the bibliographies created from word processing documents.

Create Bibliographies
If you use Microsoft Word for Windows or Macintosh or WordPerfect for Windows, please read about the EndNote Add-in. The Add-in lets you create one-step bibliographies from within these word processors. For all other word processors: To use EndNote to cite references in a paper and then create a bibliography for the paper, you simply insert the necessary citations from your EndNote database into the text of your word processing document. When you have completed the paper, you select a bibliographic style (e.g. Chicago, APA, JAMA) and tell EndNote to "format" a bibliography for the paper. EndNote scans the paper, finds the citations you pasted, modifies the in-text citations and dds a formatted bibliography to the end of your paper.

Bibliographic Styles
EndNote comes with more than 300 predefined bibliographic styles for the leading journals. You can also easily create an unlimited number of your own styles. You simply create a template that displays the reference fields and punctuation in the proper order for your style [for example: Author (Year). Title, Volume...]. Other settings let you adjust the format of the author names, page numbers, journal names, and the sort order for the references.