EndNote

EndNote is reference-management software designed for researchers, students, academics, librarians, and professionals working with scholarly sources. First introduced for Apple Macintosh in 1989 by Niles & Associates, it later evolved into a broader research-management platform and is now managed by Clarivate. EndNote helps users collect, organize, search, store, cite, and share academic references. Users can build personal libraries, attach and manage PDFs, retrieve bibliographic information, find full-text articles, remove duplicates, organize sources with groups or tags, and synchronize research across supported desktop and web environments. Its Cite While You Write feature integrates with word-processing workflows, allowing users to insert citations and automatically create bibliographies in thousands of styles. Current versions also include collaboration and AI-assisted tools for reviewing, summarizing, translating, and interacting with academic documents. EndNote’s main benefit is saving time, improving citation consistency, and making large research projects easier to manage. It also supports collaboration through shared reference collections.