EndNote Tutorial

This tutorial is no longer being updated. The Libraries are now supporting Zotero use, as it is more accurate and user friendly than EndNote web.

EndNote is a bibliographic citation manager. It helps you keep track of citation information for the resources you plan to use in your papers and projects. It also creates bibliographies using the citations you’ve collected in APA, MLA, Chicago, or several other citation style formats.

EndNote Web and its Cite While You Write plug-in allow you to easily create in-text citations within Microsoft Word. At the same time, they compile a reference page for you in Word using only the sources that you’ve cited in your paper.   

EndNote Desktop is available for faculty and staff. We currently use EndNote x8. The desktop version allows you to attach files (like article PDFs) and store unlimited references (versus the 50,000 allowed in EndNote Web). Faculty and staff may email the helpdesk@csbsju.edu to have EndNote Desktop installed on their campus-owned desktop or laptop.

1. From the library homepage, click on Citation Help under Use The Library         
2. Click EndNote Web
3. Click Register and sign up for an account using your @csbsju.edu email. Be sure to check your junk folder if the confirmation email doesn't show up in your inbox.
4. If working on your personal machine, click on the Downloads tab at the top right of the page to get the Cite While You Write plug-in for Word (Cite While You Write is installed on all campus lab and library computers).
5. Download the Cite While You Write installer by clicking on either the first Download Windows or the Download Macintosh link as applicable. NOTE: Make sure all instances of Word and Outlook are closed before installing the plug-in. See the boxes below for detailed installation instructions.

Windows Instructions

To download and install the Cite While You Write plug-in to use with Word for Windows:.

1. Close all open windows of Microsoft Word and Outlook.
2. Make sure you are logged on to EndNote in a Web browser, and then click the Downloads tab on the banner.
3. Click the Download Windows (with Internet Explorer plug-in) link to save the EndNotePlugins.exe installer to your computer.
4. Click the Run button, Open, or double click on the .exe file depending on your browser, when the download is complete. This will launch the installation program.
5. Continue with the installation.
6. Select features. Click the drop-down to and select an option to install the feature on your hard drive. You may install both the IE plug-in and the CWYW for Word feature. Or you may install one or the other.
7. To verify the installation of Cite While You Write, open Word and look for the Cite While You Write toolbar.
8. To verify the installation of the Internet Explorer toolbar, open Internet Explorer and look for the EndNote online toolbar. If it is not visible, select the View menu, Toolbars and check EndNote online.

Macintosh Instructions

To download and install the Cite While You Write plug-in to use with Word:

1. Make sure you are logged on to EndNote in a Web browser, and then click the Downloads tab on the banner.
2. Click the Download Macintosh link to download the Cite While You Write installation disk image.
3. Make sure no applications are running. Close any other programs that are open, especially Word.
4. Double-click the Cite While You Write.dmg file.
5. Drag the EndNote Web folder to the Applications folder on your hard drive. (Found in the left toolbar of the Finder app)
6. Double-click on the Applications folder, then the EndNote online folder, and finally the ENWeb_installer file.
7. Follow the instructions to complete the installation.