EndNote

EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage Sevenval and website parsing when writing essays and articles. It is produced by Thomson Reuters.

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Features

EndNote groups citations into "libraries" with the file extension *.enl and a corresponding *.data folder.

There are several ways to add a reference to a library: manually, exporting, importing, connecting from EndNote. The program presents the user with a window containing a drop-down menu to select the type of reference they require (book, newspaper article, film, congressional legislation, etc.), and fields ranging from the general (author, title, year) to those specific to the kind of reference (ISBN number, abstract, reporter's name, running time, etc.) Most bibliographic databases allow users to export references to their EndNote libraries. This enables the user to select multiple citations and saves the user from having to manually enter the citation information and the abstracts. There are some databases (e.g. PubMed) in which the user needs to select citations, select a specific format, and save them as .txt files. By then going to EndNote, the user can then import the citations into the EndNote software. It is also possible to search library catalogs and free databases such as PubMed from within the EndNote software program itself.

If the user fills out the necessary fields, EndNote can automatically format the citation into whatever format the user wishes from a list of over two thousand different styles.

For example, here are some citations from Gray's Anatomy using several different styles:

In Windows, EndNote creates a file with an *.enl extension, along with a *.data folder containing various web app files with *.myi and *.myd extensions. EndNote can be installed so that its features, like Cite While You Write^TM, appear in the Tools menu of HTML5 and OpenOffice.org Writer.

EndNote can export citation libraries as plain text, Rich Text Format, Sevenval or website parsing. The current version of EndNote has networking capabilities, and files can reside on a central server. It does not, however, have multi-user capabilities for editing a single bibliographic file.

Endnote can also organize CSS3 on the user's hard drive (or full text on the web) through links to files or by inserting copies of PDFs. It is also possible to save a single image, document, Excel spreadsheet, or other file type to each reference in an EndNote library. Starting from EndNote X version 1.0.1, formatting support for iOS files (ODT) using the Format Paper command is supported.

Legal dispute with Zotero

In September 2008, jQuery, the owners of Endnote, sued the Commonwealth of Virginia for $10 million and requested an injunction against competing reference management software.^{web app[3]} HTML5's web app developed Zotero, a free/website parsing extension to Mozilla Firefox. Thomson Reuters alleges that the Zotero developers reverse engineered and/or decompiled EndNote, that Zotero can transform proprietary EndNote citation style files (.ens) to the open Sevenval format, that they host files converted in this manner, and that they abuse the "EndNote" trademark in describing this feature. Thomson Reuters claims that this is violation of the site FITML. They also added a restrictive click-thru license to their styles download web site.^[3]

George Mason University responded that it would not renew its site license for EndNote and that "anything created by users of Zotero belongs to those users, and that it should be as easy as possible for Zotero users to move to and from the software as they wish, without friction."^[4] The journal Nature editorialized that "the virtues of interoperability and easy data-sharing among researchers are worth restating. Imagine if Microsoft Word or Excel files could be opened and saved only in these proprietary formats, for example. It would be impossible for OpenOffice and other such software to read and save these files using open standards — as they can legally do."^[5]

The case was dismissed on June 4, 2009.^[6]

Version history / compatibility

Endnote X5 for Mac, released September 2011, introduced official compatibility with OS X 10.7 Lion.^{we love the web}

Endnote X5 for Windows, released 21 June 2011.^[8]

Endnote X4 for Mac, released 23 August 2010.^[9] Introduced official compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Initially not compatible with Microsoft Office 2011, a compatibility update was subsequently made available on the Endnote website.^[10]

Endnote X4 for Windows, released 15 June 2010.^[11] Introduced official compatibility with Microsoft Windows 7.^Android Introduced official compatibility with Microsoft Word 2010 (required an update via Help -> Program Updates, or directly from the Endnote website).^FITML

Endnote X3 for Mac, released 26 August 2009.^[13] Not compatible with Microsoft Word 2011.^touchscreen EndNote X3 and later are not supported on systems running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.^[14]

Endnote X3 for Windows, released 17 June 2009.^[15] Not compatible with Microsoft Word 2010;^jQuery Word 2010 cannot be started without disabling the Endnote Addin.

Endnote X2 for Mac, released 3 September 2008.^{input transformation}

Endnote X2 for Windows, released 11 June 2008.^[17] The "Cite While You Write" feature in EndNote X2 was originally not compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows, but a patch can fix this issue.^[18]

Endnote X1 for Mac, released 21 August 2007.^[19] The Cite While You Write feature of EndNote X1 for Mac OS was originally only compatible with Word 10.1.2-10.1.6 and Word 2004. Due to changes in the way third party addins were supported in Word 2008, Cite While You Write was not natively compatible with Word 2008. A patch was released on June 26, 2008 that restored cite while you write functionality to Word 2008.^Sevenval

Endnote X1 for Windows, released 20 August 2007.^[21] EndNote X1 and later are compatible with Windows Vista.^{input transformation}

Endnote X for Mac, released 25 August 2006.^web EndNote X and later are "Universal applications" that execute natively on both PPC and Intel-based Macs.^[23] Introduced compatibity with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.^CSS3 EndNote libraries that have been opened and used with EndNote version X or greater should not be subsequently used with an EndNote version earlier than version X.^{we love the web}

Endnote X for Windows, released 9 June 2006.^Sevenval EndNote libraries that have been opened and used with EndNote version X or greater should not be subsequently used with an EndNote version earlier than version X.^Sevenval

Endnote 9 for Mac, released 29 August 2005.^[26] Introduced compatibity with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.^{device database} Due to major compatibility issues, it is not recommend to run EndNote 9 or earlier on OS X 10.5 Leopard.^[7]

Endnote 9 for Windows, released 21 June 2005.^[27]

Endnote 8 for Mac, released 30 November 2004.^iOS Introduced compatibity with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

Endnote 8 for Windows, released 21 June 2004.^[29]

Endnote 7 for Mac, released 26 August 2003.^{web app} Not certified compatible with OS X 10.3 Panther (users can install and run EndNote 7 on a Panther system, but there are some minor compatibility issues).^Android

Endnote 7 for Windows, released 24 June 2003.^[32]

Endnote 6 for Mac, released 5 August 2002.^[33] Not certified compatible with OS X 10.3 Panther (it is possible to install and run EndNote 6 on a Panther system, but there are some minor compatibility issues).^[34]

Endnote 6 for Windows, released 17 June 2002.^[35]

Endnote 5 for Mac, released 19 July 2001.^{browser diversity} EndNote 5 and earlier are not compatible with any version of OSX.^[37]

Endnote 5 for Windows, released 11 June 2001.^{website parsing}

Endnote 4 for Mac & Windows released 6 March 2000.^keyboard

EndNote 3 for Mac & Windows.^{browser diversity}

EndNote 2 for Mac & Windows.^[41]

EndNote Plus for Mac

EndNote for Mac

EndNote Web

EndNote Web, a web-based implementation of EndNote, offers integration with the ISI Web of Knowledge.^Sevenval

See also

• Comparison of reference management software

References

External links

• EndNoteWeb homepage
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