Canter Bridge

It is difficult to imagine that so few years ago academic and professional writers painstakingly typed and checked (or typed and didn’t check) reference after reference. EndNote takes care of the hassle of managing multiple works and citations while writing a manuscript. As long as you type things in correctly the first time, you’re good to go, from title page to the last page of your index.

EndNote is almost infinitely adaptable to the bibliographical style you want to use and infinitely searchable throughout any field you can think of and a few others that will make you grin to think people actually keep track of that.

The learning curve can be a bit steep when you’re first getting to know the software, but this is more than compensated by the power it places in your hands once you’ve mastered the basics. It integrates to virtually any word processor, so no worries there.

The only negative observation I can make about ISI’s great software is that it’s expensive to buy and expensive to upgrade, a fact that I suppose can be chalked up to the fact that it’s working a niche market when compared to, say, the gamers and the accountants.

I don’t know another product that rivals EndNote.