Managing your literature
Citing information and details from references when you are ready to start writing:
- Referencing style guidesThese guides outline how to include citations and create a reference list to ensure that you acknowledge the work of others correctly in different styles. The style to use may be set by your lecturer or supervisor; or by the journal you want to publish in.
- EndNote referencing softwareAllows you to export and store references, insert citations and create an automatic reference list in Word.
EndNote for your literature review
You can download EndNote referencing software via UQ and get instructions on how to use it.
Learn how to use EndNote with online tutorials.
Group references
Set up groups in your EndNote Library to classify and organise your references.
Add labels to your references
Organise references based on important themes or concepts by adding a label to each reference.
- Open a reference in your EndNote Library
- Scroll down to the Label field and enter an appropriate label (something meaningful to you)
- Close the reference and select Save if prompted
- Go to Preferences if Labels are not displaying in your panel
- Select Display Fields
- Under one of the columns select Label from the dropdown
- Click Apply and OK
Labels should display in your panel. Click on the Label heading in your panel view to sort the references by label.
NVivo for your literature review
Use NVivo to organise your literature so that you can:
- locate key terms
- identify frequently used terms
- code or tag important themes or concepts
- track your thoughts and insights
- display your information to look across authors and themes.
Our Text Analysis tools page has information on accessing and using NVivo.
EndNote and NVivo
You can export references and any attached PDFs from EndNote into NVivo and then organise the references in various ways to explore key concepts.
Export
- Go to your EndNote Library.
- Select all the references you want to export.
- Go to File and select Export.
- Choose XML file at Save as type.
- Tick Export selected references.
- Check the save location and then click Save.
- Go to NVivo and select New Project.
- Click the Data section.
- Choose From Other Sources.
- Locate the XML file.
- Click Open.
- In the box leave as is or -
- At Name Sources by choose Author and Year
- At Assign Sources choose Different classification based on record type
- Click Import.
You can then use NVivo to find patterns and gaps, and sort and categorise your references.
- Windows - Exchange data between NVivo and reference management toolsInformation from QSR International on importing references into NVivo or exporting bibliographical data from NVivo to a reference management tool (Windows version).
- Mac - Exchange data between NVivo and reference management toolsInformation from QSR International on importing references into NVivo or exporting bibliographical data from NVivo to a reference management tool (Mac version).