An introduction to Endnote

Audience: PG research, PG taught

Date: Thursday 10 April 2025

Times: 10.00 to 12.00

Programme: GRADskills

Key details: Microsoft Teams. Gain the skills to efficiently manage and organise references, seamlessly integrate citations into your work, and streamline the research and publication process

Target audience

Postgraduate researchers unfamiliar with this bibliographic management software.

Course pre-work

Online Attendees must have EndNote installed on their device (PC or Mac) prior to the beginning of the session. For in person, students should have it installed beforehand if they want to use their own device, although EndNote will be available on the classroom PCs. EndNote can be downloaded from: Apps Anywhere

Course mapped to

Vitae's Researcher Development Framework domains: A1 (Knowledge base)

Course information

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will run online.  If you are no longer able to attend, please cancel your place at least two working days before so that we can allow others onto the course.

EndNote is a leading bibliographic software, designed to efficiently manage your references. Easily store book and journal entries, locate and archive PDFs, and seamlessly fetch references from databases like JSTOR and Web of Science. With its Word plugin, automatically format citations in styles such as APA, Harvard, or Chicago, and generate bibliographies effortlessly. Best of all, the University offers it for free, allowing download to your personal device (PC or Mac).

What previous participants have said about this course:

• “Great..very useful and the various demonstrations on screen were straightforward to follow. The method of delivering the content was fine and, given the circumstances, really good and positive. so many thanks.”
• “Thank you . This was very helpful and not as daunting as I thought it would be. The addtional chat with Sharon when I was having a problem worked really well and I was able to jump back into the session and catch up.”

Aims and objectives

By the end of this workshop you should be able to:

• Create an EndNote Library and be able to input references from a wide range of information sources.
• Use key functionality within EndNote to search and organise your references.
• output the references in your required referencing style into Microsoft Word for your essays, theses or publications.

Tutors

Ms Vicki Cormie

Hilda McNae

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk