Technology

There are many reference management software packages available all over the world for all those people who are directly involved in writing reports and need to manage their work through citations. The endnote software package has been widely used, which helps many people in constructing, managing, and practicing their personal databases of bibliographical references, and composing a bibliography. Apart from that Endnote program has been designed to help researchers in the process of writing research paper, thesis or dissertation. Besides, this program will automate the creation with in-text references in APA, MLA, Harvard and other common writing formats.

There are many capabilities offered in this program which includes importing references through the keyboard or through the process of cutting and pasting. Moreover, Endnote itself acts as a database manager which can instantly search your personal reference database, classify them according to time and further move the references in new documents that are available in many styles which are customized depending on users preferences. On the other hand, Endnote program also performs the function of importing references that are stored from online available databases. It has greatly helped the researchers through group citations into libraries, supported with the file extension and an identical folder.

Moreover there are many ways of adding a reference to a library which includes manually, exporting, importing, and connecting from Endnote. This program offers the user a window which contains a dropdown menu that ultimately support in selecting the required references (newspaper, magazine, article, journal, legislation, etc.) and other fields including the general and specific kind of references. In general, users are allowed to export references to their Endnote libraries in many available bibliographic databases. This particular function facilitates the user to select various citations and emancipate the users from manually entering citations and abstracts.

Endnote XI is one of the most popular software used to develop and manage references. It has a lot of advantages which a report writer can avail while writing a report. These advantages are discussed as follows.

Endnote is usually integrated in Microsoft Word. The writer only needs to import the references to the endnote library, and then by using Endnote wizard, he can easily integrate these references into an essay or report. The writer can choose different referencing styles and many bibliographic designs to incorporate them into the report. One another advantage of Endnote is that it allows users to export references from online bibliographic databases. This also saves lot of time for the writer. Endnote helps writers to import references to a library, which than can be used to develop and maintain bibliographies. It is a very specialized kind of software which provides different kinds of referencing styles. It also helps in maintaining a record of references to use them in the future for references. All these references are stored in a special type of file with the extension .enl. These files can be created, copied, pasted or deleted like every other file. Endnote also provides built-in-templates for users. This helps writers to avoid developing and organizing layouts for bibliography. This helps in saving writers time from formatting.

One major disadvantage of Endnote is that it may not able to detect flaws in data if it is entered in the wrong way. For example, if you want to research some data of 3rd May, 2010, and if you write 2010 in the year field and 3rd May, 2010 in the date field, then Endnote will not be able to address this mistake and will show research results dated as 3rd May, 2010, 2010. Another disadvantage of using Endnote is that it cannot import BibTex files directly.

EndNote X1 provides time-saving enhancements that are tailored to how researchers work today. Users can now view all authors for a reference in the main list display, and organize up to 45 filesPDFs, graphics, PowerPoints and moreper reference using the file attachment field. Custom reference types can be exported and imported between computers easily, so users can transfer their personal settings between computers.

EndNote X1 also includes new and updated files for searching online resources, importing references and formatting bibliographies1,500 connections to online sources, 600 import filters and over 2,800 publishing styles. These and other improvements requested by students, researchers and scholarly writers make EndNote the favored reference management solution for millions worldwide. (Nancy Matus. 2007)

 There is no doubt that Endnote has been a great revolution in the field of technology which moves a step forward and provide various advantages to researchers who are constantly seeking these programs in order to facilitate their problems related to reports and papers referencing. Endnote is a user friendly software and one does not need to acquire any kind of training before starting using it. Endnote is a program that is being used by millions of researchers, librarian and students worldwide due to its various innovative features, which are introduced from time to time. Endnote is an extremely useful program, as long as the ostentatious stuff does not interfere with usefulness. The Endnote program is at the tipping point of functionality and it still considered in masses as a good job of formatting citations, Cite-While-You-Write and organizing reference, figures, and table lists.