To find out more and download visit the software service catalogue. (In the Home Software hub, you'll need to search for Endnote for it to appear as an option).Įasy to follow instructions are available to help you set up an Endnote Desktop, Premium or Basic online account.Ĭomprehensive online help and training is available from Endnote, including videos, getting started guides, comprehensive user guides and more. Students and staff can download a 'loan' of EndNote on their personal computers. It is covered by the University’s EndNote Site Licence, which allows installation of the software on any University-owned PC at no further charge per copy. EndNote desktop is installed on the public cluster PCs across our campuses. It is therefore very easy to create citations and bibliographies in the correct style for your purposes. EndNote desktop includes thousands of referencing styles, including all the major referencing systems such as Harvard and MLA, and the preferred styles for the leading academic journals. Take a look at this page from Study Zone Digital which asks 'Should I be using reference management software'. For assignments where fewer references are required, it may be quicker to create your references manually. It's worth considering whether using reference management software will be beneficial for the specific assignment you are working on. Microsoft Word also offers a basic referencing function: if you decide to use this, you will need to check that the references it produces match the formats required by the University of Exeter styles described in this guide.
If your discipline requires you to use BibTeX, please use the format generated by that no further amendments are required. It is worth spending some time to find which one best meets your needs as the styles included won’t be exactly the same as the Exeter styles of referencing, and may therefore need to be amended. Some packages are free, some you need to pay for. The main packages highlighted here are: Endnote, Endnote Web, Mendeley and Zotero. They also allow you to work in conjunction with a word processing package to insert in-text citations, your footnotes and bibliography into a document and then automatically format to your preferred style.
They allow you to import your references directly into your own database from many online sources such as bibliographic databases, electronic journals and library catalogues. They include templates for many different referencing styles such as MLA and also the preferred styles for many of the leading academic journals. Under the JISC Collections Endnote agreement (at no additional cost to the University) staff and students are able to install the software on their own devices for free.There are various software packages that you can use to help compile and manage your references into your own personal database or library.
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