

Please keep in mind when leaving the University, you have to buy the program yourself, or reconcile with loss of information when transferring your references to other software.
#Mendeley versus endnote install
Staff members can install EndNote on their computers via the Software Center. Many of Leiden's research databases allow you to export citations into EndNote.ĮndNote is available on all University-owned computers.

Learn more about EndNote and Mendeley in this tutorial. Teaching staff can request workshops information literacy.ĮndNote is very suitable to organize your research and to adjust a style to your specific needs. Consult our comparison chart for specific features. For a more comprehensive comparison of reference management software see this Wikipedia article.

Choose a reference manager that adapts easily to your way of working and lets you establish an efficient workflow. Using the same reference managers as your peers also makes sharing annotations possible. Other factors are personal preferences and work style. Therefore, some reference managers may be preferred within your discipline. Scientific disciplines vary in how references are written and consequently in how references are managed. Leiden University provides a campus-wide subscription to EndNote, but besides EndNote, open source tools like Mendeley and Zotero can also be used. The reference manager allows you to search, sort and share your references. You can insert citations and a bibliography in your Word document and change the references in almost any style, like APA or MLA. A bibliographic manager is software with which you can gather, store and organize your references, including pdf-files.
