An EndNote library and an individual reference.

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Operation

EndNote groups citations into "libraries" with the file extension *.enf or *.enl.

To add a reference to the library, the program presents the user a window with a drop-down menu to select the kind of reference (book, newspaper article, film, congressional legislation, etc.) and fields ranging from the general (author, title, year) to those specific to the kind of reference (ISBN number, reporter's name, running time, etc.) If the user fills out the necessary fields, EndNote can automatically format the citation into whatever format the user wishes from a list of over two thousand different styles. The International Standard Book Number, or ISBN (sometimes pronounced is-ben), is a unique[1] identifier for books, intended to be used commercially. ...

However, the user is still expected to know something about the citation style he chooses. EndNote will not automatically abbreviate months (except March, June and July) as MLA expects even if MLA is the selected style. MLA usually stands for: Modern Language Association, a standards-setting organization based in the United States MLA may also stand for: Organizations Medical Library Association, United States Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, United Kingdom Music Library Association, United States Minority Liberation Army, an underground rap group formerly known as the...

Also, the program might not always detect redundancies. For example, if for a newspaper article you enter "2005" for the Year field and then "April 7, 2005" for the Date field EndNote might actually output the date as "April 7, 2005 2005"

For example, a citation for an edition of Gray's Anatomy in a few different styles:

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EndNote can export citation libraries as plain text, Rich Text Format, HTML or XML. Computer files can be divided into two broad categories: binary and text. ... RTF (usually referred to as such) stands for Rich Text Format, a document file format developed by Microsoft at least as early as 1987 for cross-platform document interchange that most text processing programs are able to read and write. ... An excerpt of HTML code with syntax highlighting In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ...

External link

• Website of the publishers of EndNote