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University Computing Service
EndNote for Bibliographies
Wednesday 27th October
Rosemary Rodd rr25@cam.ac.uk
LL-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk
HELP-DESK@UCS.CAM.AC.UK
Welcome

Health and Safety

General Information
 Objectives: learn to use the software to capture and format references
 Pre-requisites: use of MS Word
 Duration & Break: 2 hours - feel free to go out when you need to, but
no food/drink in the teaching room, please.
 Course Material: workbook
 Delivery Style: self-paced
 Follow-on courses:
EndNote: Output Formats
Word 2007: Mastering Dissertations and Theses (Level 3)
Web Skills for Researchers: Web of Knowledge
Web Skills for Researchers: Why Not to Google

 Sign in: Pink Attendance Sheet
 Please fill in Green Review Form at the end of the course
 Let us know if you need assistance: Please ask questions
General Information

What is EndNote?
A database program specifically designed to store and manipulate
references.
References may be used to document any kind of information
source. For example:
Print material: books, journal articles...
Audiovisual: TV, radio, film, podcast...
Music: CD, MPG...
Images: paintings, drawings, photos...
Web pages

Why is it important to document your
sources?
 Avoid the appearance of plagiarism.
 Enable other people to refer back to them if they want to check
your conclusions.
 For your own benefit, so you can go back and re-read or check
them, and so that you can keep track of where your ideas came
from.
 But not intended as a straitjacket: there might be good reasons
(for example) why you might need to anonymise informants who
could be put at risk by having their details published in references
to personal communications.

Why use software to do this?
 Human beings are good at overall analysis and getting "the big
picture"
 Human beings are very bad at applying fiddly layout and
punctuation rules consistently.
 Computers are mindless, but they will be absolutely consistent if
you set them up with suitable rules.
 By using a bibliography management program you can produce
neat, consistent references without lots of correcting and retyping.

Other benefits
 EndNote can help you to search for references online.
 Store references with your own notes, downloaded PDFs, images
etc.
 References are searchable, and you can add your own keywords.

Check with your supervisor!
If your discipline requires very complicated rules for reference
layout it may be tricky (occasionally impossible) to set them up in
EndNote.
ALWAYS produce a small sample and show it to your supervisor,
publisher etc. for approval before doing a large amount of work.
Your supervisor is also the right person to ask for advice about
discipline-related protocols such as anonymisation of any personal
data you have collected.
Don't leave all this until the week before you are due to submit your
work!

This course covers
 Getting references into EndNote (searching online or manual
input).
 Adding extra content to your database (e.g. full text PDFs).
 Using EndNote to insert formatted references into a Word
document.
It doesn’t discuss selecting suitable online databases of
references in any depth.
If you are doubtful about where to start I would strongly
recommend attending the two Webskills for Researchers courses
and also visiting the University Library’s eresources page
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/

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