EndNote Basic
Using Cite-While-You-Write
Using EndNote Basic's Cite-While-You-Write Feature
Cite While You Write enables you to find and place citations from EndNote Basic directly into a Word document.
1. Log in to EndNote Basic. Choose the "Downloads" tab in the navigation bar and you will see different download options for Cite-While-You-Write. Choose the correct one depending on your operating system. Once you have downloaded and installed it, close your Word program and reopen it.
2. If you don’t see the EndNote Basic toolbar when you open Microsoft Word, click on File in Word, go to Options, and choose Add-Ins, and add Cite-While-You-Write (CWYW) More information on how to do this is available here.
3. To connect CWYW to your EndNote account, click on the Preferences link in the EndNote toolbar. Fill in the email address and password you used to create your EndNote account. This lets Word connect with your EndNote library.
4. Now, you will be prompted to login with your E-mail address and password a second time and then you can begin inserting citations.
5. To insert an in-text citation, place the cursor in the location of your Word document where the citation should go.Click on the Insert Citations button on the EndNote Basic toolbar. In the window that opens, search for the author of the citation you would like to insert. Select the currect citation and click the Insert button. Note: the search term must be a minimum of three characters
. Note that you have options for how you want to insert the reference that you can view by clicking on the small downward arrow on the button. For example, you can exclude the year. Your reference will be inserted into your word document, with the bibliography entry listed at the end of the page.
9. To add a page number to the in-text citation, click on the Edit Citation Pencil icon in the toolbar. In the “Pages” field, add the page you want to cite. The page number should show up in your reference. Note: Be sure to click on the Edit Reference button and change or delete the page number the next time you use the reference to avoid having the wrong page number attached to your citation.
