Simply follow the onscreen instructions, and click finish when the installation is complete

Once the download begins, you will see a series of dialogue boxes. Before you start downloading installers ensure that Microsoft Word is shut down.

Then, simply choose the appropriate plugin for your system and click to start the download. You may wish to read the installation instructions and the information about system requirements. Once you have logged into your EndNote online account, click on the ‘downloads’ tab. This allows you to use the Cite While you Write function to automatically create in-text citations and build up your reference list.

Click on OK to create a new document without EndNote field codes.This video will demonstrate how to install the EndNote toolbar in Microsoft Word on your own laptop or PC for off-campus use.

Save your original document (with field codes) in case further amendment is needed.

You can convert your document to plain text using the following steps: Also, do the conversion only when you have finalized your paper on references and are ready to format your paper. Hence, we recommend you to save a copy of your Word document with EndNote codes before the conversion. This means if you insert a new reference in the plain-text Word document, EndNote will no longer insert and auto-sort the new reference against existing references. Do note that once you do this, the links between your Word document and EndNote will no longer exist. You may consider converting your EndNote coded Word document into plain text. The 2 boxes show the linkage between your in-text citation and, reference list (with details of the records in your EndNote library). After inserting citations and references by EndNote, your Word document contains many field codes, as shown in the text within the purple box below.

Endnote citations to word