Building a Bibliography: Introducing EndNote

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Building a BibliographyIntroducing EndNote

• Dr Simon Trafford, IHR

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What is EndNote?

• Citations and References Management Software,
  produced by Thomson Reuter
• Other citations management packages
• ProCite, Reference Manager (Thomson Reuter)?
• Bibus (open source works with Open Office)?
• RefWorks, Scholar's Aid and many others
• EndNote Web (web-based EndNote lite)?
• Costs around 130 to buy, but there are
  educational discounts

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What Does It Do?

• It is used to build and maintain a bibliography
  or bibliography of references these can be books
  or articles, but equally well may be pictures,
  sounds or online resources
• It can search online electronic databases such
  as bibliographies or library catalogues and
  download and save the results
• Organises and correctly formats citations and
  bibliographies in word-processed documents to
  meet university or publishers' style guidelines

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Creating and Maintaining a Bibliography

• Called a 'library' in EndNote
• Each item in the library is a 'reference' these
  may be papers, articles, books or monographs, but
  may equally be maps, figures, tables, pictures or
  anything that can be stored in an electronic
  file sound, moving images etc

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Creating and Downloading References (1)?

• References may be entered into an EndNote library
  manually this is time-consuming, but sometimes
  necessary
• Most users prefer if possible to download from an
  external electronic source
• Uses the Z39.50 protocol, the widely-observed
  standard for electronic bibliographies
• Thus possible to search a very large number of
  online databases bibliographies, library
  catalogues etc, including the BL

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Creating and Downloading References (2)?

• Complex search with Boolean combination of search
  terms
• Searches on Author, Title, Keyword and Date
  fields the most useful
• Results may be downloaded and saved into a new or
  existing EndNote library many hundreds of
  references may be added at once in this way
• This is a quick way to establish a reading-list
  or bibliography on any given subject

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EndNote as a Citations Manager

• Having created the library, EndNote also
  functions as a citations manager during the
  process of writing
• Interacts with Word through the 'Cite While You
  Write' tool to generate correctly-formatted
  citations and bibliographies
• Pre-loaded with a large number of citation
  style-sheets for many different journals and
  publishers more can be added and tailored as
  necessary

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EndNote Pros and Cons

• Pros
• Powerful search tools and a vast range of sources
• Integrates fairly seamlessly with Word
• Figures, pictures and files treated in the same
  way as traditional reference types
• Cons
• CWYW often seen as fiddly and unlikely to save
  much time or effort
• Problems with some journal styles?
• Editing documents on computers without Endnote

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SAS EndNote Workshops

• Thursday 4 February, 14.00
• Thursday 25 February, 14.00
• Thursday 29 April, 14.00
• Thursday 6 May, 14.00 (Intermediate)
• Book places through Rosemary Lambeth
  (rosemary.lambeth_at_sas.ac.uk)?

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