ENDNOTE

PRESENTATION

Maropene Ramabina

20 September 2016

Objectives

• By the end of this presentation, you should be able to:

Create an Endnote account and add references

Manage and organise your references

Export references to a word document

Create a Bibliography

What is Endnote?

• “EndNote is a bibliographic management software program designed to help

individuals store, organize, cite and format bibliographic references”

No more writing out and organizing citations by hand

Store all your references, PDF articles, tables, images, & charts in one place

No more consulting a style manual every 5 minutes when you’re writing a research paper or

manuscript.

The program is available free on the website to all UNIVEN staff and

students.

What Endnote can do for users?

Organise your references

Import references from other various databases

Create Bibliography choosing your reference method e.g. Harvard, MLA,

APA, Vancouver etc.

Reference your materials in the body of your research (Cite as You Write)

Endnote Basics

Register on www.endnote.com (create your profile)

Open the Endnote program and click “New” under the File Menu

Search for your articles from various databases e.g. Sabinet, Google Scholar

etc. and export your references to your account

Export your references from Endnote to your research paper (creating your

bibliography)

EndNote Web Account

• Sign up if no account was

created previously.

• Same account as the one used

for Web of Science. (Can’t

create two accounts under the

same email address.)

• Just sign in if already available.

Example of Exporting your references from

Sabinet

Create a Formatted BibliographyAfter highlighting the citations and

choosing the output style, go to the

File menu and click “Export…” and

save the file as rtf (Rich Text Format).

Summary

Two databases e.g. Endnote (log in) and Sabinet

Do your search on Sabinet e.g. The history of death penalty in South Africa and Zimbabwe(choose and put your keywords on Sabinet)

The relevant articles, export them to your endnote account (as shown in the previous slide)

Then go read and type your research and do your footnoting. When done, go to endnote, retrieve or copy your bibliography and attach it on your research and submit

No worries about commas, full stops, spacing, pagination etc. Endnote will do it for you

Remember

Endnote just stores and outputs the data you have selected

It won’t correct you if you have chosen the wrong or irrelevant references

It won’t read the articles for you. You have to do it yourself

Advices

As Research Lawyers, you need to give yourself time to search for relevant

articles and cases

- Time

- Patience

- Do your Own Research (practice)

- Technology (WI FI)

References

Zhang, Y. 2010. Introduction to EndNote X3. UMDNJ – Dept. Family

Medicine, RWJMS Somerset, NJ.

Thank you very much

Maropene.Ramabina@univen.ac.za

Maropene.Ramabina@gmail.com

015 962 8521