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EndNote for Health Sciences & Medicine

This guide will assist USD SSOM and USD SOHS users to download and use EndNote.

EndNote

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EndNote is a citation management software that helps you:

  • Store, organize, and search for your saved references,
  • Import references, or add them manually, from USD's databases,
  • attach and annotate PDFs, and
  • easily cite and create a reference list in your paper.

The current version available for download is EndNote 2025. See the download instructions to get started.

EndNote 2025 New Feature Highlights! 

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To take advantage of these new features, you need to activate your EndNote 2025 account. This is an easy process to do within EndNote and you can find the instructions on the EndNote Support page. Additional key features can be found here.

AI Key Takeaways

AI Key Takeaways is a generative AI tool that pulls key information from articles and PDFs and condenses it into clear summaries. It delivers concise, organized overviews of each article.

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Direct Cite from PDF

Users are able to insert highlighted text from PDFs straight into their documents, with the matching citation added automatically in just one step. Highlight the section in the PDF and right click to see the option Copy Quote & Citation, or select the quotation marks in the top right of your screen.

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Paste the copied quote in Word.

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You can find additional information about this feature on EndNote Support.

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