Part 1: Getting started

On the desktop of your PC look for the Endnote icon and start the program. To begin you will need to start your own library (the file that will contain all your references).

Click the “File” menu and then “New”.

By default the file will be called ‘My EndNote Library’ but you can change its name. Press “save” and the file will be created. You can now add references to your library.

The easiest, if most time consuming, way to do this is by writing them yourself. To do this press “new reference” button on your library

From the drop down menu you can select what type of item you are referencing, such as book, journal article or Web Page.

You can then fill in the rest of the fields below.

To add more than one author press enter to write the new name on a new line.

Names in red mean that this author or journal have not been entered by you before. Over time as you build up a library Endnote will auto-suggest names that you have previously entered

Adding a corporate author

When entering corporate authors, put a comma after the name:

Whittington Health NHS Trust,
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust,

This ensures that the entire name is treated as a first name, so no name manipulation will be applied.

If your corporate author name includes a comma in the name itself, use two commas in place of the first comma:

St George's,, University of London

EndNote treats this as a last name followed by a blank first name. Then, everything after the (blank) first name is appended, including a second comma in the name. The formatted result is the corporate name with the commas in place.

Once you have entered your reference press save and it will be added to your library

Another way to add references to Endnote is to import them from a database (see Part 2).

Last updated21 Jul 2017