It is accessible on all Library Information Commons (IC) machines, as well as on the computers of professional and academic staff, campus-wide. It can be used to automate and manage your research processes and sources, as well as reference your written work using an extensive selection of popular academic and publication-specific 'house' writing styles.ĮndNote X9 is available free-of-charge to all current students and staff of the Australian National University.

Make sure that you keep (and backup) BOTH files – if you need to go back and revise your paper you want to open the UNCONVERTED version, so that the citations can be updated as needed.This guide details EndNote X9 software, which, as of February 2021, has been superseded by EndNote 20, across the ANU Library Information Commons (IC) computers.ĮndNote X9 is a powerful reference management software application, used widely across tertiary education and academic publishing sectors worldwide.

Save the file with a new name – this is now the file that you want to submit online.In the EndNote toolbar, look for the “Convert Citations and Bibliography” pulldown, and select “Convert to Plain Text” (no, it isn’t going to remove all the lovely formatting from your paper – just the coding for those citation links).Save your file (you’re doing this every 10 minutes or so anyway, right? RIGHT?).So there’s another step that you need to take when you’ve finished your paper –

If you send someone a digital copy of your paper (such as when you submit it via TurnItIn), that coding is going to make your citations appear as gibberish.

But those citations actually include coding that links to your EndNote library.

When you use EndNote to insert citations into your paper, you see the text of the citations and the reference list – if you print the paper out, that’s exactly what you get.

Endnote x9 tutorial