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Module 1 - An Introduction & Overview of EndNote 9

The Australian National University (ANU) Library offers many online scholarly information resources, from which you are able to bring references into EndNote, allowing you to create bibliographies for your research papers using EndNote and a word processing package.

EndNote allows you to record and organise references to books and journal articles, create and automatically format citations and bibliographies in electronic documents, and find and save references from library databases. EndNote calls these different types of sources Reference Types.

EndNote Libraries are the databases of your individual references - or put another way, the electronic equivalent of a box to keep your index cards in.

EndNote References are the equivalent of index cards. Each reference contains fields (e.g. author, title), providing information about the article you have used in your research. You may also hear EndNote references called Records.

EndNote Fields contain detailed information on such things as author, title, and year of publication so that your reference is accurately cited and easy to identify. Each reference can have up to 40 different fields, some of which may be customised.

File Extensions

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Windows extension

Description

EndNote Libraries

.enl

A database of your EndNote references. You can store up to 32,000 references or 32 MB (whichever comes first).

EndNote connect files

.enz

This contains the information that allows EndNote to connect directly to a database for searching and downloading references.

EndNote filters

.enf

Allows the importing of references from databases without connect files.

EndNote styles

.ens

Information about formatting references in bibliographies. Styles determine the final appearance of your citations and bibliography.

Text file

.txt

A text file can be read by most word processing packages. Allows the use of one file in multiple software packages.

Word file

.doc

File format used by Microsoft Word.



ENDNOTE TIP:

It is important to ensure that only one EndNote library is used when inserting citations into a paper. It is possible to organise an EndNote library for each paper that you write or you could maintain a single EndNote library and use it with all of your papers.

The important thing is that for any paper you only use one EndNote library.

ANU Site Licence

EndNote is available for students and staff to use while at the ANU. It is installed on all computers on the Information Commons. Staff and students can also borrow a copy of the software from the ANU Library to be installed on their home computer, and can obtain a commercial copy of this software from the supplier. See http://www.EndNote.com for details.


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