If you remember the author or title of your citation, you can search for the citation from within Word. Go to the EndNote ribbon, and click the down arrow by Insert a Citation and click on Find Citation.
Type in the information on your citation and click Find. Choose the citation you want to insert and then click Insert.
The citation will appear in the text of your document and the full reference will appear in the bibliography or works cited list.
You can also insert citations by finding them in EndNote, selecting them and then inserting them in Word. Go to EndNote first, and select the citation(s) you need to insert.
Go to the EndNote ribbon, and click the down arrow by Insert a Citation and click on Insert Selected Ciation(s).
The citation will appear in the text of your document and the full reference will appear in the bibliography or works cited list.
This method can easily insert multiple works into a citation at the same time by selecting several works in EndNote.
Sending a document back and forth between users can make the document lose its connection to your EndNote library. It is best to make a copy and convert it to plain text for others to edit. You can then use your original to make the desired edits in. It is a bit more work but better than having to go back and reinsert all your citations.
To save a plain text version of your document:
In EndNote, Click on the Edit menu, mouse over Output Styles and click on Open Style Manager.
Click on "Get More on the Web".
From the EndNote Output Styles website, search for the title of your citation style or journal. When you find the one you want, click on the Download button.
You may be asked to choose where to save the file. If so, it needs to go in the Styles folder of the EndNote program (for Windows, that is the EndNote folder in My Documents). If you aren't asked where to save the file, open the File manager and move the file.
You can check that the file is in the correct folder by looking at the contents of the C://Program Files/EndNote X6/Styles folder in the File manager.
You can now close the Style Manager in EndNote and then open it again. When you add a style, the Style Manager does not update dynamically, you must close it and open it again to find the new style. Once you have done that, it should appear in your list and you can add a check to the box next to it so it will appear in your drop down list of styles in EndNote and your word processor.
EndNote provides templates for certain styles for an entire paper. You can download these templates from EndNote.com (under Downloads and Writing Templates). The templates are simply Word documents with formatted sections in them that you type in where appropriate. Insert your citations from EndNote as usual.
In EndNote, go to the Tools menu and click on Manuscript Templates.
Find the template you want and open it.
You may get some warnings that the template is not set up for a 64 bit system. Just click through the warnings - it will not harm your computer.
You should end up with a Word document open that has sections ready for you to type in.
Mac EndNote does not come with the templates. You must download them from EndNote.com. You can save them anywhere you want.
You can't open the templates from within EndNote on the Mac so just open them in Word as you would any other document.
EndNote can be used with LaTeX and BibTex. Use the guide linked below from MIT to help export your EndNote citations into BibTeX.