EndNote introduction course

17 April 2012

Tora Kristiansen and Maria Johnsson, LTH Libraries

Agenda

1.Introduction to reference

management

2.Short demonstration of EndNote

3.Individual exercises in EndNote

4.Questions and summary

Why reference management?

Some reasons for reference management

•Manage your sources that you use when you publish

•Store ideas/sources for future use

•Share sources with other colleagues

 

Some advantages of managing

references electronically:

•You can import links/references from databases,

library catalogues etc

•You can create reference records yourself by hand

•You can tag all links with your own subject terms

•You can easily share links/literature with others

•You can easily find links made by others

•You can link directly to full-text articles, records in the

library catalogues, databases, or web pages

•You can easily create citations and bibliography

 

Some software tools for reference management

•EndNote – there is a university licence for this tool

•RefWorks - there is a university licence for this tool

•CitULike

•Diigo

•Del.icio.us

•Zotero

•Connotea

For information see web page: http://www.lub.lu.se/en/write-referee/managing.html

 

For more information on reference management, see following pages:

AWELU (Academic Writing in English at Lund University) http://awelu.srv.lu.se/

Lund university libraries web page on reference management http://www.lub.lu.se/en/write-referee.html

 

Demonstration on EndNote

Now follows some examples of creating and

importing references with EndNote.

 

Create a reference in EndNote: Go to ”References” in the top menu and select ”New reference”

Type your reference details in the empty record

The new reference in the EndNote library

Detailed view of a book record in Libris

Click on ”cite” to get the reference of the book

Click here to save the reference as a file for EndNote, select ”.RIS” as file extension

Start EndNote and to go ”File” in top menu and then select ”Import” > ”File”

Locate the ”RIS-file”, choose ”Reference Manager (RIS) as import option and click ”Import”

View of the imported reference

Detailed view of a reference in the database Scopus

Click on ”Export” to export the reference to EndNote

Choose export format ”RIS format”

Save the export file to desktop

Locate the ”RIS-file”, choose ”Reference Manager (RIS) as import option and click ”Import”

Click on the import icon in EndNote

View the imported reference in EndNote

Find fulltext document (PDF:s) to your EndNote library

There are several ways to get more fulltext documents to your EndNote Library:

a) Go to EDIT > select Preferences > Find Full Text. Paste the universities URL into the OpenURL Path window: http://XU2LA7UD9L.search.serialssolutions.com

b) If you have fulltext document (PDF) on your computer you can add it to your EndNote Library. Select “File Attachments” field in the record you want to have it in. In the top menu select “References” > File Attachments > Attach file… and locate the pdf-file that you want to attach.

c) You can also import full text articles that you have on your computer into the Endnote Library.If there is a DOI number in the document, then EndNote automatically picks up the information from the article. Otherwise you can fill in the info (author, title…) manually from the article, or choose the way that describes in example b.

Select ”File” in the top menu, then ”Import” >”File”, locate the file, choose import option ”PDF”

It is possible to make annotations and highlight texts in full text documents in your EndNote library

Click here to view the fulltext in EndNote

Click here to make highlights of the text

 

Learn more about EndNote? See the

online training tutorials on the

following website:

http://www.endnote.com/training/

 

See following video on EndNote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=L5Kn8l2rgqk