EndNote

This article is about the reference management software. For other uses of the word, see Endnote (disambiguation).
EndNote

Endnote X7.1 running on Windows 8.1
Developer(s) Thomson Reuters
Stable release X7.5 (Windows / Mac OS X)[1]
Preview release 22334
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Type Reference management
License Proprietary
Website EndNote homepage

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

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, or by exporting, importing, copying from another EndNote library, or connecting from EndNote. The program presents the user with a window containing a dropdown menu from which to select the type of reference they require (e.g., book, congressional legislation, film, newspaper article, etc.), and fields ranging from the general (author, title, year) to those specific to the kind of reference (abstract, author, ISBN, 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. Some databases (e.g., PubMed) requires the user to select citations, select a specific format, and save them as .txt files. 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 any of over 2,000 different styles the user chooses. For example, listed below are some citations from Gray's Anatomy using several different styles:

Anthropos Gray, Henry
1910 Anatomy, descriptive and applied. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger. [18th ed.]
APA 5th Gray, H. (1910). Anatomy, descriptive and applied (18th ed.). Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger.
MLA Gray, Henry. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied. 18th ed. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1910.
New England J Medicine 1. Gray H. Anatomy, descriptive and applied. 18th ed. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger; 1910.

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

EndNote can export citation libraries as HTML, plain text, Rich Text Format, or XML. 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 PDFs 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 OpenDocument files (ODT) using the Format Paper command is supported.

Legal dispute with Zotero

In September 2008, Thomson Reuters, the owners of EndNote, sued the Commonwealth of Virginia for $10 million and requested an injunction against competing reference management software.[2][3] George Mason University's Center for History and New Media had developed Zotero, a free/open source 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 Citation Style Language 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 license agreement. 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, 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]

History

Niles and Associates produced early versions of EndNote.[7][8]

Version history / compatibility

EndNote Web

EndNote Web, a web-based implementation of EndNote, offers integration with the ISI Web of Knowledge.[40]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Software Updates - EndNote - Thomson Reuters". EndNote.
  2. ↑ "Reuters Says George Mason University Is Handing Out Its Proprietary Software". Courthouse News Service. 2008-09-17.
  3. 1 2 Young, Jeffrey R. (2008-09-29). "Wired Campus: Maker of EndNote Citation Software Sues George Mason U. - Chronicle.com". Retrieved 2015-06-22.
  4. ↑ Owens, Trevor (2008-10-29). "Official Statement". Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
  5. ↑ Anon (2008). "Beta blockers? Proprietary data formats may be legally defensible but open standards can be a better spur for innovation". Nature 455 (7214): 708–200. doi:10.1038/455708a. PMID 18843308.
  6. ↑ Takats, Sean (2009-06-04). "Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Dismissed". The Quintessence of Ham. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
  7. ↑ For example: "EndNote". PC Mag 10 (16) (Ziff Davis, Inc.). 1991-09-24. ISSN 0888-8507. Retrieved 2015-03-03. 'EndNote (Niles & Associates) [...] stores up to 32,000 references and creates bibliographies in any style you choose.
  8. ↑ Heck, André; Murtagh, Fionn, eds. (1993). Intelligent Information Retrieval: The Case of Astronomy and Related Space Sciences. Astrophysics and Space Science Library 182. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 57. ISBN 9780792322955. Retrieved 2015-03-04. EndNote from Niles and Associates is a commercial personal DBMS tool explicitly customized for storing and retrieving scientific bibliographical records. [...] EndNote incorporates knowledge about bibliographic subtleties such as abbreviation and positioning of author initials, data dictionaries for journal names, different styles and abbreviation levels required for different journals, etc.
  9. 1 2 3 Archived January 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ "Portal". Kbportal.thomson.com. Retrieved 2014-06-22.
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  12. 1 2 3 4 "Frequently Asked Questions". EndNote.
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  15. ↑ Thomson Reuters | Thomson Reuters Ships EndNote X3 For Mac Os X
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  19. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20120428033515/http://www.endnote.com:80/pr-enX2win.asp. Archived from the original on April 28, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20120730014658/http://www.endnote.com:80/support/faqs/Install/faq28.asp. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  21. ↑ "Press Releases". thomsonreuters.com.
  22. ↑ EndNote X1 Patch Restores CWYW Functionality to Word 2008 | MacResearch
  23. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20120304065828/http://www.endnote.com/pr-enx1win.asp. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  24. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20120719062236/http://www.endnote.com:80/pr-enxmac.asp. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  25. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20120416111856/http://www.endnote.com/enmacintel.asp. Archived from the original on April 16, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. 1 2 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/20130319092646/http://endnote.com:80/support/helpdocs/ENX-GettingStartedGuide.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. 1 2 https://web.archive.org/20120504004136/http://www.endnote.com:80/pr-enxwin.asp. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  28. ↑ Archived January 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  29. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20120304072019/http://www.endnote.com/pr-en8mac.asp. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  30. ↑ Archived January 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  31. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20120428034014/http://www.endnote.com:80/pr-en7mac.asp. Archived from the original on April 28, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  32. 1 2 3 Archived March 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  33. ↑ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en7win.asp
  34. ↑ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en6mac.asp
  35. ↑ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en6.asp
  36. ↑ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en5mac.asp
  37. ↑ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en5.asp
  38. ↑ http://www.endnote.com/en4press.asp
  39. 1 2 "Software Updates - EndNote - Thomson Reuters". EndNote.
  40. ↑ Williamson, Iain (2007), "EndNote", Software for Small Business, 2008 Edition: Windows and Vista Programs to Help You Improve Efficiency and Productivity (Productive Publications), pp. 77–78, 380, ISBN 9781552703250, retrieved 2012-05-14, EndNote Web is a companion product which is a Web-based reference organizer incorporated into the ISI Web of Knowledge [...].

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