VETS5016 - Evidence-based veterinary medicine and systematic review: Referencing and EndNote

  EndNote is a tool for gathering and storing all your references. You can use it to insert the references into a bibliography and automate the referencing style.

Suggested EndNote steps for this assignment:

• Install EndNote on your laptop or desktop (click on the 'Download EndNote' link)
• Check if the style you are required to use is listed in dropdown box. Otherwise download this output style from Endnote.com
• Import the BioScience journal title abbreviations list 
• Create a group for each database you search 
• Export references from the databases 
• Drag the references into the relevant group folder after each database 
• Click on a group folder in the left panel, to bring up just those references
• Add a label to the references to detail the search used:
  • Go to: Tools > Change/Move/Copy Fields...
  • Change the drop down to In: Label
  • In the empty box, type in:
    - database searched
    - date searched
    - limits of search, such as date range or languages
    - search terms used
  • Click OK
  • The label will go into all of the references and be searchable
• Change the columns to make the label appear:
  • Go to: Edit > Preferences > Display fields
  • Change column 8 from 'Last updated', to Label
• Set up ‘Find Full Text’ to bring in PDFs  (read these online instructions)
• Annotate PDFs with highlighting and sticky notes  (open the PDF and select the icons at the top – click and drag for highlighting; two clicks on the page for a sticky note)
• You can search sticky notes (read these online instructions)
• Rate the papers with a star rating (click in the ‘Rating’ column to make stars appear or disappear)
• Sort by star rating (click on the ‘Rating’ heading to sort by stars)
• Add comments in the ‘Notes’ field about why a paper was included/excluded
• Find duplicates by:
  • sorting  -  click on the ‘Title’ heading to sort alphabetically by title
    OR
  • find duplicates feature  -  click on Library> Find Duplicates.  (Just count the duplicates – don’t click ‘keep this record’.  That would delete one of them.)
• DON’T DELETE RECORDS FROM YOUR LIBRARY! – You need the tallies for your PRISMA flowchart
• Add a reference to a Word document:
  • click on the desired reference, right click and select Copy formatted; open Word and paste it in 
  • OR
  • insert citations into your Word document using the EndNote menu in Word
• To compress an EndNote library to attach it to an email, or to submit it for assessment, go to:  File > Compressed Library (.enlx)…  [this will combine the .enl folder and .data folder into a zipped, attachable file, called an .enlx file]