Overview of Clarivate EndNote

Welcome to EndNote—the complete reference solution!

What Is EndNote?

EndNote is a bibliography maker.

Cite While You Write allows you to format references in Apple Pages, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Apache OpenOffice Writer 3.x or 4.x, and LibreOffice 4.x–7.x (32-bit) for Windows. You can also create bibliographies for other word processors using Format Paper (RTF files). There is no better tool than EndNote for handling diverse bibliographic style requirements.

EndNote is an online search tool.

Search online bibliographic resources and retrieve references directly into your EndNote library. You can also export references to EndNote from your favorite online resource. See Direct Export Providers for more information about this feature.

EndNote is a reference and full-text organizer with a collaborative Web tool.

Your personal reference library will save you countless hours of organizing your research.

• Group references according to your research projects and attach up to 45 files per record for managing related materials.
• Locate full-text PDF files or create a reference when importing a PDF file.
• Synchronize references and file attachments with your EndNote Web library.
• Share groups with other EndNote users easily.

EndNote desktop and EndNote Web/online are collaborative tools to simplify working with colleagues. (At the time of this writing, the sharing feature is not yet available in EndNote Web and will revert to using EndNote online.)

Help

• See the What's New video on our YouTube channel for information about the most recent features added to EndNote.
• Find useful information about EndNote at the EndNote Training Portal.

EndNote Updates

• For documentation updates and correction notes, refer to the Readme.txt file installed in the EndNote folder.
• For updates to the EndNote program, select Check for Updates from the EndNote menu in EndNote.

New Features in EndNote 2025

• Updated Summary panel (see The Summary Panel).
• Update Options list in the Reference panel (see Reference Panel Options List).
• Updated Edit panel in the Reference panel (see The Edit Panel).
• The Library Status dialog replaces the Sync Status, Library Summary, and Recover Library Results displays, containing the information that previously required three separate displays (see Library Status Dialog). Library status now also indicates when Sync is taking place, reflecting the stages of the Sync process in real time.
• Styles can now show en dashes (–) or hyphens (-) between numbers for page and date ranges (see Page Numbers).
• The Research Assistant, a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature in EndNote and EndNote Web (see Artificial Intelligence (AI) in EndNote: The Research Assistant).
• EndNote Web has also expanded its PDF capabilities with a PDF viewer (see EndNote Web/Online for an overview of EndNote Web's capabilities).
• The Find a Journal feature has been added to Cite While You Write (CWYW) for online applications, replacing the former Manuscript Matcher. It can be found in Cite While You Write for Word Online (see The EndNote Menu Button in Word Online) and Cite While You Write for Google Docs (see The EndNote Menu Button in Google Docs).
• Integration of the Paperpal Preflight Paper Checker in Cite While You Write, with premium reports available for a fee per paper (see Paperpal Preflight Presubmission Check).
• Quicker quotations with matching citations from PDFs (see Inserting Quotations from PDFs).
• Tags in EndNote Web, similar to those in EndNote desktop (see EndNote Web).

New Features Added in EndNote 21

• Recover a lost or damaged library from the cloud (see Recovering a Damaged Library).
• Compare and restore previous versions of individual references (see Compare and Restore Previous Versions of a Reference).
• Stay organized with tags (see Tags).
• Cite While You Write in Word online (see Cite While You Write in Word Online).
• Cite While You Write in Google Docs (see Cite While You Write in Google Docs).

View Our What's New Video

Clarivate recommends that you view our What's New video on our YouTube channel.