EndNote

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EndNote
Developer(s) Thomson Reuters
Stable release

X5.0.1 (Windows, Mac OS X) / June 21, 2011 (Windows)

Summer/Fall 2011 (Mac OS X)[1]
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.

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[edit] 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:

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 plain text, Rich Text Format, HTML 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.

[edit] 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 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 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]

[edit] Version History / Compatibility

Endnote X5 for Mac, released September 2011. Introduced official compatibility with OS X 10.7 Lion.[7]

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

Endnote X4 for Mac, released 23rd 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 15th June 2010.[11] Introduced official compatibility with Microsoft Windows 7.[12] Introduced official compatibility with Microsoft Word 2010 (required an update via Help -> Program Updates, or directly from the Endnote website).[13]

Endnote X3 for Mac, released 26th August 2009.[14] Not compatible with Microsoft Word 2011.[15] EndNote X3 and later are not supported on systems running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.[16]

Endnote X3 for Windows, released 17th June 2009.[17] Not compatible with Microsoft Word 2010[18]; Word 2010 cannot be started unless the Endnote Addin is disabled.

Endnote X2 for Mac, released 3rd September 2008.[19]

Endnote X2 for Windows, released 11th June 2008.[20] The Cite While You Write feature in EndNote X2 was originally not compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows, but a patch is available to fix this issue.[21]

Endnote X1 for Mac, released 21st August 2007.[22] 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.[23]

Endnote X1 for Windows, released 20th August 2007.[24] EndNote X1 and later are compatible with Windows Vista.[25]

Endnote X for Mac, released 25th August 2006.[26] EndNote X and later are Universal applications that execute natively on both PPC and Intel-based Macs.[27] Introduced compatibity with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.[28] 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. [29]

Endnote X for Windows, released 9th June 2006.[30] 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. [31]

Endnote 9 for Mac, released 29th August 2005.[32] Introduced compatibity with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.[33] Due to major compatibility issues, it is not recommend to run EndNote 9 or earlier on OS X 10.5 Leopard.[34]

Endnote 9 for Windows, released 21st June 2005.[35]

Endnote 8 for Mac, released 30th November 2004.[36] Introduced compatibity with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

Endnote 8 for Windows, released 21st June 2004.[37]

Endnote 7 for Mac, released 26th August 2003.[38] Not certified compatible with OS X 10.3 Panther (it is possible to install and run EndNote 7 on a Panther system, but there are some minor compatibility issues).[39]

Endnote 7 for Windows, released 24th June 2003.[40]

Endnote 6 for Mac, released 5th August 2002.[41] 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).[42]

Endnote 6 for Windows, released 17th June 2002.[43]

Endnote 5 for Mac, released 19th July 2001.[44] EndNote 5 and earlier are not compatible with any version of OSX.[45]

Endnote 5 for Windows, released 11th June 2001.[46]

Endnote 4 for Mac & Windows released 6th March 2000.[47]

EndNote 3 for Mac & Windows.[48]

EndNote 2 for Mac & Windows.[49]

EndNote Plus for Mac

EndNote for Mac

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enx5win.asp
  2. ^ "Reuters Says George Mason University Is Handing Out Its Proprietary Software". Courthouse News Service. 2008-09-17. http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/09/17/Reuters_Says_George_Mason_University_Is_Handing_Out_Its_Proprietary_Software.htm. 
  3. ^ a b Young, Jeffrey R. (2008-09-29). "Wired Campus: Maker of EndNote Citation Software Sues George Mason U. - Chronicle.com". http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3352. Retrieved 2009-04-11. 
  4. ^ Owens, Trevor (2008-10-29). "Official Statement". Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool. http://www.zotero.org/blog/offical-statement/. Retrieved 2009-04-11. 
  5. ^ "Beta blockers?" (PDF). Nature 455 (7214): 708. 2008-10-09. doi:10.1038/455708a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 18843308. Archived from the original on 2010-05-24. http://www.webcitation.org/5py7np6z6. Retrieved 2009-04-11. 
  6. ^ Takats, Sean (2009-06-04). "Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Dismissed". The Quintessence of Ham. http://quintessenceofham.org/2009/06/04/thomson-reuters-lawsuit-dismissed/. Retrieved 2009-06-04. 
  7. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enosx.asp
  8. ^ http://thomsonreuters.com/content/press_room/science/thomson-reuters-releases-endnotex5-for-windows
  9. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enx4mac.asp
  10. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enword2k7.asp
  11. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enx4win.asp
  12. ^ http://www.endnote.com/envistaand7.asp
  13. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enword2k7.asp
  14. ^ http://thomsonreuters.com/content/press_room/science/EndNote_X3_For_Mac
  15. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enword2k7.asp
  16. ^ http://www.endnote.com/entiger.asp
  17. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enx3win.asp
  18. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enword2k7.asp
  19. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enX2mac.asp
  20. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enx2win.asp
  21. ^ http://www.endnote.com/support/faqs/Install/faq28.asp
  22. ^ http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/press/2007/8404853/
  23. ^ EndNote X1 Patch Restores CWYW Functionality to Word 2008 | MacResearch
  24. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enx1win.asp
  25. ^ http://www.endnote.com/envistaand7.asp
  26. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enxmac.asp
  27. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enmacintel.asp
  28. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enosx.asp
  29. ^ http://www.endnote.com/support/helpdocs/ENX-GettingStartedGuide.pdf
  30. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enxwin.asp
  31. ^ http://www.endnote.com/support/helpdocs/ENX-GettingStartedGuide.pdf
  32. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en9mac.asp
  33. ^ http://www.endnote.com/entiger.asp
  34. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enosx.asp
  35. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-enxwin.asp
  36. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en8mac.asp
  37. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en8win.asp
  38. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en7mac.asp
  39. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enmac_panther.asp
  40. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en7win.asp
  41. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en6mac.asp
  42. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enmac_panther.asp
  43. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en6.asp
  44. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en5mac.asp
  45. ^ http://www.endnote.com/enmac_panther.asp
  46. ^ http://www.endnote.com/pr-en5.asp
  47. ^ http://www.endnote.com/en4press.asp
  48. ^ http://www.endnote.com/support/enupdates.asp
  49. ^ http://www.endnote.com/support/enupdates.asp

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