The feature Cite While You Write is an add-in for Microsoft Word. It is available for Windows and Mac and can be downloaded in EndNote Web under Options --> Download Installers.
Cite While You Write allows you to insert citations as you work and then generate a bibliography. Most major citation styles are supported.
- Log in to your EndNote Web account and open the document in Word.
- When you are ready to cite a source, position the cursor in the text where you would like to put the citation.
- Go to the Tools menu, then the EndNote X7 submenu, and then select Insert Citation(s): A "Find & Insert My References" dialog appears.
- In the text box at the top, enter identifying text for EndNote to locate the appropriate reference. This could be an author’s last name, a year, a keyword, or any other combination of terms found in the reference.
- Click Find and EndNote compares the identifying text to your EndNote references and then lists the matching reference(s).
- Identify and highlight the appropriate reference(s).
- Use the Insert button triangle to display a menu, and select from:
- Insert: To insert the citation and format it as defined by the currently selected output style
- Insert & Display as: Author (Year)
- Insert & Exclude Author
- Insert & Exclude Year
- Insert in Bibliography Only
- NOTE: You can click Insert (not the triangle) to quickly select the default Insert command.
- Go back to step 3 to insert the next citation, and continue citing references this way.
- NOTE: When Instant Formatting is turned on, each time you insert a citation it is formatted and a bibliography is updated at the end of your document. When you are done inserting citations, your document is done. Instant Formatting is turned on by default.
