This week, over 5 days, we will be introducing you to EndNote online.

EndNote is a tool that can help you store and organise the references that you find during your research. You can then insert citations and a fully-formatted reference list into your Word documents.

Today we are going to set up an EndNote Online account and add a reference.

EndNote online is free to anyone but while you are at the university it will give you access to a range of extra referencing styles, including the university approved ones.

On campus

  • Go to http://wok.mimas.ac.uk and login to Web of Science with your university username and password. Logging in will show that you are a member of the university).
  • Click EndNote at the top of the screen.
  • Click register and complete the online form.
  • You will need to think carefully about a password - it requires at least one letter, one number and one symbol.
  • Note that you will use the username and password you have created to access EndNote in future, not your university one. The reason for logging in as a member of the university initially is to get the extra styles, including the official university ones, which you do not get in the completely free version. 

Off campus

  • Go to http://wok.mimas.ac.uk.
  • Click the purple button then select institutional login.
  • Select Swansea University then login with your university username and password. Once you are logged in carry on as above.

Now that you have an account, let’s get some reference information in EndNote. We will start by learning to add a reference manually. You won’t need to do this very often: most of the time you will import the references as you find the information. It is useful to learn how to add a reference manually because it will help if you ever need to edit a reference that you import.

Entering references manually

  • Click the Collect tab then click New Reference
  • Use the drop down menu to change the Reference Type to book.
  • Enter the following reference using the text in boxes:

Top tips for manually adding references…

  • When you start to type, a larger box will open which allows you to use formatting such as bold, underline, etc. It is not usually necessary to do this as EndNote will format your references when needed but it can be useful if you want to do something different from a standard style, such as stressing a particular word in the title.
  • Do not put a full stop at the end of the title – EndNote will add punctuation when needed.
  • You always need to enter basic information (such as author, title and publication date) which you would need to include in a reference. There are also optional fields (such as keywords, call number, notes, etc) which you can use if you find them helpful.

EndNote will automatically save your reference as you go along but you need to click the Save button to finish.

The reference that you have added will be listed in My References.

Tomorrow we will learn how to import reference information from iFind.