What does Endnote offer to you?

Endnote http://www.endnote.com (now offered by Clarivate Analytics which also offer Journal Citation Reports), is a reference management software for Windows and Mac. It offers many options to manage literature/ references (as an individual or a group), work with PDFs and write a paper including footnotes and a bibliography more easily - learn more about Endnote in this video and in the brochure "Endnote X9 Factsheet".

HZI purchased a campus licence* for Endnote. You can install Endnote from the Softwarecenter on your workstation (see how-to Endnote-Installation from Softwarecenter (on your workstation, the current version Endnote X9 is available there) .

* Due to the campus licence for Endnote it is not possible to install Endnote also on private devices. Please use a trial version from endnote for an installation on a private device: http://endnote.com/downloads/30-day-trial (the trial version can be used longer than the mentioned 30 days)

For more information on Endnote and other reference management software please have a look into Links, section 2 and 3

As an introduction you can watch the video tutorial "How to use Endnote in 5 Minutes" (Windows) or the Endnote-Webinar of Alfasoft (Details in unserer Newsmeldung vom 27. November 2015) .

What exactly does Endnote offer to you?

• Cross-platform: can be used on Windows, Mac* or iPad
• Automatic or manual synchronisation via "Sync Library" of literature collections (both, Endnote Online and Endnote Desktop) via the cloud
• Manual import of references from Web of Science, Google Scholar and many other sources (1. Export of the references as .enw or .ris --> 2. Import in Endnote Desktop: File > Import > Choose File + "Endnote Import")
• Integrated PDF viewer
• Automatic compilation of literature lists / bibliographies (via plug-in für MS Word (Tools > Cite While You Write > Go to Word Processor), in case you use MS Word 2016 see details here).
• Large selection of predefined citation styles.
• see details in "Endnote Quick Reference Guide" (based on X7, last update: 2015) or video tutorial "How to use Endnote in 5 Minutes" (Windows)

Comparison :  Endnote Basic vs. Endnote X9

Literaturverwaltungsprogramme im Vergleich/Comparison of Reference Management Software[TU München, only in German, last update: 3. July 2020]: This document compares features, handling and licence and pricing models of reference management applications (Citavi, EndNote, EndNote Web, Zotero, Mendeley, JabRef, Colwiz, Zoterobib). Please feel free to reuse this TUM-document and contact TUM University Library for the original data.

* Info for Mac-user (8th May 2018):

Please contact Mrs. Schulz (sch13) in case of questions or problems.