Week 7 Endnote

Lecture

In today's lecture we learnt how, why and when to use End Note. It stores and remembers information so you don’t have to retype a reference once it has been entered. The program allows you to choose your own reference format; the format that was relevant for me was APA 5th, which automatically presented the reference list in alphabetical order.

Tutorial


To use End Note you need it to be easily accessible. The program is available at ECU for free and you can download form the ECU library site.Once End Note is opened you choose the type of reference you want it to do i.e. book, journal, article etc. Once that is selected a page will appear with a section for each bit of information needed to successfully reference a text. Once all the required information is entered to view it in a sentence you just close it and highlight it. It will then appear across the bottom of the page, automatically in the correct format for ECU. To add the reference to a Word document copy the sentence and then paste it into the document.
In this weeks tutorial we had a number of references, we had to work out what type they were, and then enter them using an endnote. An example of how it turned out is located below.

The second task was to open the Cite while writing Endnote exercises. The aim was where ever there was red italic writing, read the writing then follow the instruction it was asking of you. You had to use Endnote to fill in these blanks with the references you found in the previous exercise. Here is the screen capture of my word document Cite.

The five different type of electronic format and reference are

1. Website:Technical specifications (iPhone). [n.d.] Retrieved November, 2007, from Apple: http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
   
2. Periodical:VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources by psychology undergraduates [Electronic version]. Journal of Bibliographic Research, 5, 117-123.
   
3. Computer Software:Computer literacy for nurses [Computer software]. (1985). Edwardsville, Kansas: Medi-sim.
   
4. Email:Office of Research and Development. (1995). ARC large grant guidelines. Email December 2, 1995, from mailto:t.lampard@cowan.edu.au/Get%20ARCLG95
   
5. eBook:Wilkinson, R., & Marmot, M. (Eds.). (2003). Social determinants of health: The solid facts (2nd ed.). Retrieved December 2, 2007, from http://www.euro.who.int/document/e81384.pdf

Reading 1 summary

In this weeks readings we had to read up on the guide to EndNote software (ECU's guide). It gives us a bit of background on what EndNote actualy is and then goes on from there into detail about the many functions. it helped me figure out how to do my workshop succesfuly.

Reading 2 summary

The second reading consists of additional reading on EndNote. Within this it contains frequently asked questions, issues, extra downloads, guides and tips. I find that this sort of thing can be very useful as you should know as much as you can of a software so as to use it to achieve great benefits.