# EndNote Reviews **Vendor:** Clarivate **Category:** [Reference Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/reference-management) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 183 ## About EndNote EndNote is a robust reference management software designed to help students, academic scholars, and professional researchers organize their bibliographic data and streamline the process of citing sources. It allows users to collect references from databases, websites, and PDFs, manage them in a centralized library, and insert citations directly into documents. EndNote 2025 is the latest version boasting new AI tools to help users quickly digest articles and includes new tools to further streamline workflows. Researchers can work from anywhere through the desktop or online applications and easily collaborate with others with collaboration and sharing tools. ## EndNote Reviews ### 1. From cluttered references to an impeccable library with a few clicks: EndNote **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2025 **What do you like best about EndNote?** Its seamless integration with Word allows me to insert and manage citations very easily; I like its vast database of citation styles that allows each reference to meet the requirements of different formats from APA to Chicago automatically. EndNote is also capable of generating graphs and tables extracted from the database to incorporate into my reports. **What do you dislike about EndNote?** EndNote is actually very efficient, at this point I can't say anything bad; it has an intuitive UI that simplifies my tasks of collecting, organizing and citing references in different styles. **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** EndNote changed my dynamics in reviewing documents and managing numerous citations easily; it's ideal for centralizing references in a single database which in turn has optimized my collaboration with other teams to work with updated and structured information. ### 2. Convenient way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** zolchimeg o. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2025 **What do you like best about EndNote?** It is far for easy to make in text citation and reference list. **What do you dislike about EndNote?** Nothing to say. There is nothing to dislike **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is really useful for my academic reports, assignments and research reports ### 3. Perfect referencing application that clearly organize keep resources & docs for article preperation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nabeel S. | Pharmacist & RA Manager, Pharmaceuticals, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023 **What do you like best about EndNote?** Ever since, I have used many referencing applications during my research at university. Still, I found the Endnote to be one of the profound applications that has numerous benefits over other conventional apps. It manages the references effectively with the additional capability of the attachment of the PDF docs. It offers the ability to edit the pre-made library or to make a new library at a time. Furthermore, it is helpful to build and effectively manage any kind of project. I would recommend it to writers, scientists, and students to enjoy this resource for effective research project management or development. In short, I found it very helpful in integration with Microsoft Word, Excel, and other Word Processors; mostly, the integration process is easy and automatically added to the secondary software. **What do you dislike about EndNote?** There are no typical downsides for the EndNote; however, I have observed that the manual references implementation according to the various journal demands I some how difficult because of the complex layout. **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have employed Endnote for various research projects for references, and project management. This has helped me throughout the process and reinforcing my continued interest. ### 4. One of the best reference managers in the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos F. | Professor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2023 **What do you like best about EndNote?** It formats the in text citations and references for my papers very well for all the journals that I need without any work on my part. It integrates very well with Word. It has a very easy interface to work with. **What do you dislike about EndNote?** Editing the citations themselves is not very easy since I have to do it manually, it lacks a good user interface when doing it directly inside Word. **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** It keeps all my references in one place, it allows me to enter them into my articles, and then it formats the papers into the format of whichever journal or conference I send the paper to. ### 5. Helping me get my thesis formatted **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily P. | PHD Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2023 **What do you like best about EndNote?** Endnote lets me not only effectively store and sort my references, but also integrated them into word documents so I can add my references in as I go, along with curating a reference list at the end of the document. **What do you dislike about EndNote?** The online endnote does not allow for group sets. This makes co-ordinating with full endnote difficult. **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving my references details and curating in-text references and reference lists. ### 6. Manual Referencing is miserable : Try Endnote **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2020 **What do you like best about EndNote?** EndNote: as the name indicates "stop noting manually" make yourself go on easier with ready to use tool for referencing and citations. Furthermore, Endnote is merely not bound into only referencing but it also provides us an online account, which saves our projects and enables us to access our work easily from anywhere. Besides, quoting the ready references from Scholar.google.com it is also provided with editing the reference according to the need of a journal/ publisher. The best peculiarity, which is most fascinated to me is the attachment of certain Paper/article/PDF to the specific reference, so that which is then easily accessible for the desired action. **What do you dislike about EndNote?** As for us, I think Endnote made an impact in the field of research without any hindrances **Recommendations to others considering EndNote:** I advise those who still hands-on manual citations. Save your time and get used to "ENDNOTE" **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use ENDNOTE for bibliography, referencing, citation for research papers ### 7. An Outstanding Referencing Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2023 **What do you like best about EndNote?** We already know that Referencing & Bibliography (Such as APA, Vancouver, Chicago & many others) is a challenging matter when demanded from specific platforms of academia, officially, especially when we have to cite without software. I started using Endnote X5 in 2015 and am now using the EndNote X9 version, which is still working fine. This is citation software that makes referencing easier than quoting a reference manually. The following are the best features I perceived in EndNote (EN). 1- Searching reference: It provides an online library to search the specific reference and place it in a document where it is needed. Additionally, the easiest supported way by Googleschollars to download a reference that EN supports, the downloaded file directly shows up in EN after its execution. 2- Integration with Microsoft Word: Endnote can easily be integrated with MS Word; inside the tool, the add-on of EN performs various actions; such change of reference style option can be availed to change the reference style instantly within the whole document (e.g., APA to Chicago), converting the bibliography to plain text, and this integrated add-on can take us directly to software (EN) if a change is required within the reference. 3- Customized referencing: Certain platforms support their style; EN supports such situations by providing the edit option, new reference, or importing style. Which makes it easier to alter according to the demand. 4- Attaching PDF file: Within the EN, we can attach a PDF (Academic or any document from where the reference has been taken) which is very helpful for taking us directly to the concern instead of browsing and searching the specific work repeatedly. 5- Library backup: Every of our reference lists can be saved in a specific format (EN Library) which can be later imported, shared, and saved. Furthermore, many more features benefit students, researchers, and scholars. **What do you dislike about EndNote?** Sincerely, I have never experienced any downsides since using this software for a very long time. **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used EndNote during my Graduation and Masters for citation of referencing & Biblio. I have also used to publish my academic and research papers. My favorite feature is integrating with MS Word, downloading references from G-scholars, and citing through EN after importing the downloaded file. ### 8. Great citation database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manuel L. | GIS Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2023 **What do you like best about EndNote?** It allows our company to keep previous archaeology records organized. Endnote allows us to create custom layouts with key words that are easy to search for. In addition it organizes attach pdfs so they can be viewed within Endnote as well as standalone. **What do you dislike about EndNote?** In order to have multiple editors and read-only viewers, there are two versions of Endnote on our server, causing duplication of data and twice the consumption of memory. It also cannot be edited while someone has it open so it requires a lot of tracking down of users to get it to close. **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** On the GIS side, it's a quick reference to build a separate database that allows a geographic component to each record. Endnote creates unique ID folders where PDFs are stored, so linking those in ArcGIS is a breeze since data is not duplicated. For the rest of the staff, they can quickly add references to their word documents thanks to a built-in extension that links Endnote to Word. This saves a lot of time and more importantly misspellings of references ### 9. Reference Organization Made Simple **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zachary Z. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2023 **What do you like best about EndNote?** EndNote simplifies what can oftentimes be an arduous and tedious process. While certainly it is *possible* to manually organize the dozens upon dozens of references in a single manuscript, EndNote automates the process and saves a world of headache. In particular, reference numbers tend to be altered, flipped, and mixed around when going through the editing and manuscript review process. Instead of painstakingly going through and one by one changing these superscripts and references, EndNote does this entirely automatically. It is challenging to imagine undergoing this process without EndNote. At the end of the day, this software saves users time, allowing them to spend more thought power on what they are writing instead of what they are referencing. **What do you dislike about EndNote?** While EndNote offers numerous benefits, in the beginning the software itself is somewhat challenging to learn. It isn't that the user interface is unclear -- quite the opposite -- it just is not the most intuitive and requires a bit of trial and error before achieving a place of comfort with the software. However, once this level of expertise is achieved, the time save grows exponentially. Users should think of this as an initial time investment -- yes, it will take a bit of extra time in the beginning, perhaps even above and beyond that of simply organizing the references manually, but after several uses, the saved time becomes immeasurable. **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** As above, EndNote solves the problem of reference organization. It is technically possible to perform this type of organization by hand, but why subject oneself to such an arduous process when there exists a readily available software that is capable of performing these functions at a level nearly unachievable by humans? In short, EndNote solves a problem that every single author has experienced prior to its introduction and ends the nightmare of reference organization once and for all. ### 10. EndNote assists in citations providing links of the research papers, articles or case studies. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** marium u. | Human Resources Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2023 **What do you like best about EndNote?** Automated citations and references adding **What do you dislike about EndNote?** Its access is limited to paid after some time. **What problems is EndNote solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing the addition of unlimited references in any research ## EndNote Discussions - [What is EndNote used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-endnote-used-for) - 1 comment - [What format does EndNote use?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-format-does-endnote-use) - 2 comments - [View EndNote pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/endnote/reviews/endnote-review-394971?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-07+14%3A42%3A55+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=153db43e-b416-4207-b553-f395fd8aa29c&secure%5Btoken%5D=68e9c057633d756ac5f422640f0b8a40aae9918694a0893c5a965125dddcb5fd&format=llm_user) ## Top EndNote Alternatives - [Mendeley](https://www.g2.com/products/mendeley/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (247 reviews) - [ReadCube](https://www.g2.com/products/readcube/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (172 reviews) - [EasyBib.com](https://www.g2.com/products/easybib-com/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (151 reviews)