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EndNote Tips

A basic guide for installing, navigating and using EndNote X5, EndNote X6, and EndNote X7. Note: If you share EndNote online folders with colleagues, sharing can be done on EndNote online as usual.

EndNote How-To Videos

EndNote X8

This is a collection of EndNote X8 training videos on YouTube with overviews and short courses for Windows and Macintosh.

EndNote Training Videos--Full Collection

Watch videos on multiple EndNote topics, including Cite While You Write, adding references, and much more.

Current Version

The most recent version of EndNote available commercially and at Saint Louis University for Windows and Mac is EndNote X8.  Many procedures for EndNote X8 and EndNote X7 (and even EndNote X6) are the same.  Where they differ, the tab will indicate the version illustrated.

EndNote X7

EndNote X8

EndNote is a citation management program that helps collect, organize, and manage references to articles, books, dissertations, Web pages, government documents and more.  It has four functions: 

  • Find references
  • Store and organize references with attached full text
  • Create documents using Cite While You Write
  • Share references with colleagues.

It can assist you in citing resources in your papers and creating bibliographies for those papers in a citation style of your choice.