Referencing & Citation Tools

EndNote Online is a web based version of EndNote. Your Reference library is stored in the online application and not on your computer.

EndNote Online is recommended for undergraduate students as it’s easier to use than the desktop version, with a more intuitive interface and simplified features that make managing references and creating bibliographies straightforward—even for beginners!

You must register for the first time with a computer on the UL Eduroam network. This identifies you as a UL student and gives you more features due to our license agreement. 

1. Register for EndNote Online
2. Follow the instructions to register your account.
3. You may be asked to agree to the terms and conditions. Once you have agreed you will have completed your EndNote Online Registration

To add Harvard UL to EndNote online

For EndNote to recognise you as a UL student or staff member you must login to EndNote online once a year from a computer on the UL Eduroam network. Harvard UL is only available to accounts that are identified as UL affiliated. 

Once you have logged in from a computer on the UL network you can follow these steps to add Harvard UL

1.    In EndNote online click on Format
2.    Click on Bibliography.
3.    Select Harvard UL 2016 from the dropdown box beside Bibliographic Style
4.    If this is not available, click on the select favourites link.
5.    In the box that appears, scroll down until you find Harvard UL 2016. Click to highlight and then select ‘ Copy to Favourites’

Harvard UL will now be available to you in your list of bibliographic styles

Here are some Step by Step processes for using databases and Endnote Online.  Please note that some features may appear differently depending on the web browser used.

• Go to MathSciNet
• Run your search
• Tick the box beside the records you want to export into EndNote Online
• Use the dropdown box beside Batch Download at the top of the screen to choose Citations (EndNote)
• Click on the Retrieve Marked button 
• A webpage opens up with plain text, copy all of this plain text
• Open up Notepad (go to the Windows Start button and type 'Notepad' in Search Programs and Files box)
• Paste the plain text into a new Notepad file and save as a text file (.txt file extension) in the Downloads folder (or another location on your computer)
• Go to your EndNote Online account
• Click on the Collect tab and then the Import References option
• Choose the .txt file from the Downloads folder
• Select EndNote Import as the Import Option
• Select Group (folder) that you wish to add the reference to
• Click Import and if successful the message will say "1 references were imported into ..."

EndNote desktop and EndNote Online are separate applications and Microsoft word needs to be told which application you want to use for inserting references. To change between the applications:

• Go to your word document.
• Click on the  EndNote Tab,
• Click on Preferences,
• Click on Application and choose EndNote for EndNote desktop and EndNote Online for EndNote Online.

We recommend that you use only one application per document