Now that we have some references in our EndNote library, let's use them to write a paper. After all, that's the main reason why we got them there in the first place, right? So there are two things you typically do with references when writing a paper. You insert the citations into the appropriate places in your text, then you provide the full citation in a bibliography somewhere in your paper, usually at the end. Each in-line citation refers in some way to a specific entry in the bibliography, which allows the reader to find the original source of your reference. EndNote allows you to do both easily. Because EndNote is not a word processing program, you typically need a plugin for EndNote in your word processing program to access your EndNote library, and that plugin is called "Cite While You Write". So here I am in Microsoft Word 2016, and Cite While You Write is simply a tab in the ribbon area. If you have an older version of Word without the ribbon, Cite While You Write is typically installed as a floating toolbar. If EndNote is not installed properly, you may not see Cite While You Write either in the ribbon area or as a floating tool bar. This typically happens if Word is installed after EndNote. In that case, you can rerun the installation to fix it. On the Mac, you can go to EndNote, Customizer, and make sure Cite While You Write is checked here, and proceed to install. In Windows, you will need the original EndNote installation program and rerun that. So let's say this is my paper, and this here is not an original thought. I need to insert a citation right here. So the first thing I'll do is to make sure that the cursor is at exactly where I want to insert the citation. Then I can go up to my EndNote tab, click "Insert Citation", and here is where you can look up the citation you want to insert. Now you should make sure that the EndNote library that has the citation you want is open, as it will look up references in open libraries only. If no libraries are open, it will automatically open the library you used last time for you. So I can type in some keywords to identify the reference I want to cite here. I usually just type in an author's name, but if it still gives you too many references to choose from, you should also type in something else, such as another author's name, a publication year, or title keyword, etc. So let's say this is the article I want to cite here. I'm going to make sure it's highlighted, and then click "Insert". A couple of things happened very quickly here. It first inserted the citation to my text, and then immediately formatted the citation and appended a bibliography at the end of the document, using my current style, which is "APA 6th". Let's do it again. Let's say I need to insert another citation right here. Click "Insert Citation", look up the reference, select, click "Insert Citation", and there it is. You can insert multiple citations in the same location. It will automatically format the citations as required by your selected style. So let's say I have several citations to insert here. Click "Insert", and look up my citations. You can insert all of them at once if you can get them to show up in the same list. Just select multiple, click "Insert", and the citations and the bibliography are formatted correctly. You can also add additional citations to a location with existing citations. So I will make sure that my mouse cursor is in the right location. Click "Insert Citation", pick another one, click "Insert", and you can see that it worked beautifully. As I said, the reason why my citations and bibliography look like this is because my current style is "APA 6th", as indicated right here. "APA" is a typical "Author Date" style. You specify author names and publication year in the in-line citations, and the bibliography is sorted alphabetically. Now one of the major advantages of using EndNote is the ease of switching styles. Let's say the APA style is not what you want, nor what your publisher wants. You can change it right here in this style dropdown. So let's say I want the "JAMA" style. And you can see that my citations and bibliography have changed accordingly. "JAMA" is a typical "numbered" style, where you insert numbers in line (in this case as superscripts), and each of the numbers refers to an entry in the bibliography, which is sorted by the numbers in the order of appearance for those citations. You can see that it handled the multiple citations in the same location pretty well, too. Whichever style you choose, the sorting and numbering of citations, both in-line and in the bibliography, are handled automatically for you. So if I later move my text around in the paper. Let's say I decided that this next sentence should really go before the first one. The numbering and sorting will be changed automatically. Now what if the style you want is not in this short list? Well, EndNote ships with thousands of styles. It won't be useful if they are all listed here. This is supposed to be your "favorites" list. If you want a certain style, you can add it to your short list. Here is how. Choose "Select Another Style", and you can see that this is a long list. I am going to pick "New England Journal of Medicine". is a long list. I am going to pick "New England Journal of Medicine". Select. Click "Choose". Just like that. I only have to do this once. From now on, the "New England Journal of Medicine" style will always be in my short list of styles until I remove it from my favorites list. In most cases, you generate bibliographies out of cited references in a paper, but sometimes you just want to create a bibliography independent of a paper. Just a list of references. You can easily do that with EndNote. First, you select the references you want. And then you right click, and choose "Copy Formatted". Or you can go to "Edit", "Copy Formatted". Or use the keyboard shortcut as indicated here, Command K, or Control K on the PC. Now a formatted version of the selected references in the current style indicated here has been copied to the clipboard. Now I can go to my Word document, and paste it here. There it is.