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EndNote Download

The Gould Library has purchased an EndNote software site license for the Carleton College community. EndNote may be installed on any computer owned by Carleton, its students, or its employees using the links on this page. Please contact the appropriate person listed below if you have any questions.

Students: EndNote is available in ITS student computing labs. Ask at the SCIC, or make an appointment with a librarian to install EndNote on your own computer.

Faculty and academic staff: Please contact an Academic Technologist before installing this software on the computer in your office.

Administrative staff: Contact ITS Rapid Response to have EndNote installed on the computer in your office.

Get EndNote!

EndNote 10 for Windows Installer (77.1 MB) (requires Carleton login)

Extract all files from the compressed folder and run the EndNote setup.

Windows Reqirements:

  • Windows 2000 (service pack 3), XP (service pack 2), Vista
  • Pentium 450-megahertz (MHz) or faster processor
  • 180MB hard disk space available
  • 256 MB RAM
  • Cite While You Write feature: Microsoft Word 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007.

EndNote 10 for Mac Installer - (50 MB) Ctrl-click and choose "Save Link As" (requires Carleton login).

Open the disk image and drag the EndNote 10 folder to your Applications folder.

Note: you must uninstall EndNote 9 before installing EndNote 10.

  1. Log off of all servers
  2. Quit ALL applications!
  3. Launch EndNote 9, click Cancel when the first EndNote screen comes up.
  4. Go to the EndNote 9 menu and choose "Customizer"
  5. Check the box that says “Remove EndNote From This Computer”
  6. Click Next -- Note: if have any EndNote Libraries in the EndNote folder, move them to another folder now.
  7. Click Exit
  8. Go to the Applications Folder and drag the EndNote 9 folder to the trash.
  9. Empty the trash
  10. Now install EndNote X.0.2 by dragging the EndNote folder to your Applications folder, making sure once again that there are no programs running.

Mac Requirements:

  • Mac OS X (10.3.9 - 10.4.x)
  • PowerPC or Intel Macintosh 450 MHz or higher
  • Hard disk with 180 MB available
  • Minimum 256 MB of available RAM
  • Cite While You Write: Microsoft Word X, 2004.

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EndNote Support Files: Styles, Filters, Connection Files

The EndNote program uses hundreds of support files for transferring bibliographic data between your EndNote Library and your word processor (Microsoft Word), reference databases, and library catalogs.

Output Styles control how citations will be formatted in your Microsoft Word document;

Filters control how citations exported from particular reference databases and library catalogs are imported into your EndNote Library; and

Connection Files are used for interactively searching reference databases and library catalogs from within EndNote.

Gould librarians support and update the style, filter and connection files to make sure they work correctly with our resources. The most recent versions of the files are on kept on Collab at COLLAB\Departments\LIBR\Common\Applications\Windows in folders named PCStyles, PCFilters and PCConnections. The files here work for both Macs and PCs.

On Campus: To make sure you are using the most current copies of the files

  1. Open EndNote.
  2. Go to EndNote -> Preferences on a Mac, or Edit -> Preferences on a PC.
  3. Choose Folder Locations from the left side of the preferences window.
  4. Set the folder locations to the appropriate folders on Collab (COLLAB\Departments\LIBR\Common\Applications\Windows) for Connections, Filters and Styles.
  5. Click OK.

Off Campus: You should download a recent set of the Gould Library styles, filters and connections to your computer using the links below.

  1. Follow the instructions below to download styles, filters and connection files.
  2. Open EndNote.
  3. Go to EndNote -> Preferences on a Mac, or Edit -> Preferences on a PC.
  4. Choose Folder Locations from the left side of the preferences window.
  5. Set the folder locations to the appropriate folders on your computer.
  6. Click OK.

Please contact your liaison librarian to report problems with a particular style, filter, or connection file, or to request that a file be created for a particular resource.

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Output Styles Download

Output Styles control how citations will be formatted in your Microsoft Word document.

Here is the latest set of styles supported by the Gould Library liaison librarians.

Gould Library EndNote Styles Set, Mac format 660K June 10, 2008. Install instructions:

  1. Quit EndNote.
  2. Locate your Styles folder, located in your EndNote folder on your hard drive.
  3. Open your Styles folder, and trash all of the styles in it (but do not trash the Styles folder).
  4. Click on the link to download the new styles set.
  5. Stuffit Expander should automatically expand the download into a folder called MacStyles containing the new set of styles.
  6. Move the styles into your Styles folder where your previous styles were.
  7. Trash the now-empty MacStyles folder.

Gould Library EndNote Styles Set, PC format 582K June 10, 2008. Install instructions:

  1. Close EndNote.
  2. Locate your Styles folder, probably C:\Windows\Program Files\EndNote\Styles\
  3. Open your Styles folder, and delete all of the styles in it (but do not delete the Styles folder).
  4. Click on the link to download the new styles set.
  5. Double-click on the PCStyles11_30_04.zip file that you downloaded.
  6. Click on Extract all Files.
  7. When the Extraction Wizard comes up, click Next, then browse to your now empty Styles folder. Click Next. The styles will be put in your styles folder.
  8. Click Finish when the extraction is complete.

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Import Filters Download

Filters control how citations exported from particular reference databases and library catalogs are imported into your EndNote Library.

Here is the latest set of filters supported by the Gould Library liaison librarians.

Gould Library EndNote Filters Set, Mac format 468K June 10, 2008. Install instructions:

  1. Quit EndNote.
  2. Locate your Filters folder, located in your EndNote folder on your hard drive.
  3. Open your Filters folder, and trash all of the filters in it (but do not trash the Filters folder).
  4. Click on the link to download the new filters set.
  5. Stuffit Expander should automatically expand the download into a folder called MacFilters containing the new set of filters.
  6. Move the filters into your Filters folder where your previous filters were.
  7. Trash the now-empty MacFilters folder.

Gould Library EndNote Filters Set, PC format 407K June 10, 2008. Install instructions:

  1. Close EndNote.
  2. Locate your Filters folder, probably C:\Windows\Program Files\EndNote\Filters\
  3. Open your Filters folder, and delete all of the filters in it (but do not delete the Filters folder).
  4. Click on the link to download the new filters set.
  5. Double-click on the PCFilters11_30_04.zip file that you downloaded.
  6. Click on Extract all Files.
  7. When the Extraction Wizard comes up, click Next, then browse to your now empty Filters folder. Click Next. The filters will be put in your Filters folder.
  8. Click Finish when the extraction is complete.

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Connection Files Download

Connection Files are used for interactively searching reference databases and library catalogs from within EndNote.

Here is the latest set of connection files supported by the Gould Library liaison librarians.

Gould Library EndNote Connection Files Set, Mac format 988K June 10, 2008. Install instructions:

  1. Quit EndNote.
  2. Locate your Connections folder, located in your EndNote folder on your hard drive.
  3. Open your Connections folder, and trash all of the connection files in it (but do not trash the Connections folder).
  4. Click on the link to download the new connection files set.
  5. Stuffit Expander should automatically expand the download into a folder called MacConnections containing the new set of connection files.
  6. Move the connection files into your Connections folder where your previous connection files were.
  7. Trash the now-empty MacConnections folder.

Gould Library EndNote Connection Files Set, PC format 402K June 10, 2008. Install instructions:

  1. Close EndNote.
  2. Locate your Connections folder, probably C:\Windows\Program Files\EndNote\Connections\
  3. Open your Connections folder, and delete all of the connections in it (but do not delete the Connections folder).
  4. Click on the link to download the new connections set.
  5. Double-click on the PCConnections11_30_04.zip file that you downloaded.
  6. Click on Extract all Files.
  7. When the Extraction Wizard comes up, click Next, then browse to your now empty Connections folder. Click Next. The connections will be put in your Connections folder.
  8. Click Finish when the extraction is complete.

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