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Citation Styles & Tools

What your citation looks like depends on the style that your academic discipline follows. If you don't know where to start (and if your instructor hasn't specified a style guide to follow), read through the overview of common citation styles.

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EndNote Technical Support

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EndNote Technical Support

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EndNote

 

EndNote is a bibliographic management software that helps collect and manage citations. Users can also insert in-text citations while simultaneously creating a bibliography in MS Word through Cite While You Write. EndNote is available online (EndNote Basic for free) or as a desktop application (EndNote 21 for purchase).

  • Create an account for an online library with a maximum of 50,000 references and up to 2GB of attachments
  • Store, share, and organize citations and access them from any computer
  • Search, annotate, and highlight within PDFs
  • Build citation reports and utilize other features in EndNote Basic, through an institutional subscription to Web of Science
  • Write in an offline environment
  • Create and manage group access
  • Share selected references with groups
  • Build a bibliography in any included styles, or customize a style
  • Automatically export references and full-text PDFs into EndNote
  • Visit EndNote website to download a free, 30-day trial of EndNote 21*
  • Get Endnote 21& at a discounted price (UCI faculty, student, or staff) through thinkEDU*

*Users will need an active and current UCI email address (academic ID) to purchase. Individuals who purchase a single-user license can install EndNote 21 on up to three computers (Mac and Windows) for personal use and sync their library across all 3 computers.

  • Official EndNote browser extension
  • Access full-text PDFs through institutional database subscriptions and open access
  • Organize articles with tags and download PDFs to computer
  • Add and access articles to user’s EndNote Click Locker (Additional locker space is available at EndNote Click Premium)
  • Integrates with Mendeley, EndNote, Dropbox and Zotero

EndNote Comparison

Compare EndNote Styles


  EndNote Basic EndNote 21
Reference storage 50,000 unlimited
Attachment storage 2GB unlimited
Share entire library with others   yes
PDF viewer with annotation tools   yes
Manuscript Matching and publication recommendations yes yes
Extraction of DOIs and other imported metadata from PDFs   yes
Cross-platform library synching across desktop, online, and iPad

Web browser and iPad app sync only

 yes

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Cite While You Write for Microsoft® Word

Cite While You Write for Microsoft® Word is a plug-in that allows you to insert references and formats citations and bibliographies automatically while you write your papers in Word. To download and install the Cite While You Write plug-in, follow the steps below:

EndNote Tutorials