# Using Endnote

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/using-endnote/19983>\
**Category:** Scrivener for macOS\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [October 30, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/using-endnote/19983 "2012-10-30T16:44:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/using-endnote/19983/9 "2012-11-01T11:56:01Z")

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> Hello. Does anyone know how to use endnote with scrivener please? I’ve edited “preferences” so that endnote is now my bibliography manager - but what command do I use actually to insert a reference, please? I’m sure I’m just being thick but I’ve spent most of the afternoon fiddling with endnote and scrivener and watching training videos without any success in finding it. I was hoping scrivener would help me STOP “cat vacuuming” rather than enabling it!

I wrote my doctoral thesis in Scrivener, using EndNote, and it worked brilliantly. The simplest way to enter a reference in Scrivener is to press Cmd-Y (to open EndNote), search for and select the relevant citation in EndNote, click (and hold) and drag it into Scrivener (and then release). While that is the simplest, the easiest way is to press Cmd-Y, select the reference(s) you want in EndNote, press Cmd-C (for copy), switch to Scrivener (using Cmd-Tab) and once the cursor is in the right place press Cmd-V (for paste). This will insert text surrounded by curly brackets {author, date, code}. When you later compile the document to Word, you can then convert these to properly formatted citations using the Academic style of your choice (I needed to use APA Style for my thesis).

Text like this\*

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> Johnson and Smith {, 2007 #123} state that most writers “don’t know what they’re talking about” (p.76). This is in contrast to the evidence provided by previous authors {e.g., \Pratchett, 2005 #779;Tolkien, 1981 #903;Dahl, 1977 #245}. Indeed, some go so far as to say that only writers know what they are talking about {Keith, 2010 #222;Blyton, 1975 #302}.

will end up like this (using APA Style)

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> Johnson and Smith (2007) state that most writers “don’t know what they’re talking about” (p.76). This is in contrast to the evidence provided by previous authors (e.g., Dahl, 1977; Pratchett, 2005; Tolkien, 1981). Indeed, some go so far as to say that only writers know what they are talking about (Blyton & Big Ears, 1975; Keith, Jaysen, & Vic-K, 2010).

Note that, even if you were to write your entire paper/thesis/textbook in Word, you are better leaving the conversion to properly formatted citations until the very end. I strongly recommend avoiding CWYW, at least if you want to avoid headaches and complications. I have used CWYW in the past, but I was never going to let it close to my thesis.

[size=85]\*Text taken from [this post](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/endnote-not-working-when-trying-multipul-refs-into-word/16632/1)[/size]

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