EndNote Preferences
To access EndNote preferences:
- From the EndNote 2025 menu, select Settings.
- A list of the available preference panels appears on the left side of the window. Click on the name of a panel in the list that corresponds to the setting you would like to change. Below are the topics covering these preferences.
- Change Case Preferences
- Display Fields Preferences
- Display Font Preferences
- Duplicates Preferences
- Find Full Text Preferences
- Folder Locations Preferences
- Formatting Preferences
- Libraries Preferences
- PDF Handling Preferences
- Read/Unread Preferences
- Reference Types Preferences
- Sorting Preferences
- Sync Preferences
- Temporary Citations Preferences
Saving or Discarding Your Changes
All of the preferences panels have the following options:
- EndNote Defaults: Reverts the settings for just the current panel to the original EndNote settings.
- Revert Panel: Removes any changes made to the current panel since it was last saved.
- Save: Saves the changes made to the current panel.
Where Preference Settings are Saved
Preference settings are saved to the current user account, which allows multiple users to access a single library while preserving each user’s preferred settings. Many EndNote preferences are saved in a com.ThomsonResearchSoft.EndNote.plist file found in the folder Users/[Your Folder]/Library/Preferences/EndNote. You can reset many preferences to the default setting by quitting EndNote, deleting the preference file, and then restarting EndNote to recreate the preference file.
Reference Type definitions are saved in a RefTypeTable.xml file which is located in the folder Users/[Your Folder]/Library/Application Support/EndNote.