EndNote: Cite While You Write

EndNote's Cite While You Write (CWYW) feature allows users to insert citations from their EndNote library directly into a Word or Google document while a bibliography of the selected citations is automatically generated at the end of the document. Using EndNote's Cite While You Write function can save users hours of formatting and editing their citations and bibliography.

Cite While You Write:

• Ensures the proper reference and bibliography format is followed for the selected citation style
• Automatically re-formats the references and bibliography of a paper if a new citation style is selected
• Automatically updates reference numbering and bibliography order as the document is edited and references are added, removed, or re-ordered.

• In order to use CWYW (Cite While You Write), you must have EndNote Add-on in in Word.
• In order for EndNote Add-on to appear in Word, you must have Word installed first in your computer before you install EndNote.
• Once Word is ready, you can install EndNote.
• After EndNote is installed, the EndNote tab will be displayed in Word. See below for EndNote 20 tab in Word:

What if the EndNote Tab Disappears in Word?

Sometimes your EndNote tab may disappear for whatever reason. If this happens to you too, please follow the steps below to make the tab reappear:

• In Word, go to File --> Options --> Add-ins.
• At the bottom of the list of Add-ins, under “Disabled Application Add-ins”, you should see “EndNote Cite While You Write” Add-in. To re-enable this, go to Manage: (the pull-down menu located at the very bottom of the same screen).
• Change the menu from “COM Add-ins” to “Disabled Items”.
• Click Go, you will see a little pop-up window.
• Click on the “Add-in: cite while you write (endnote cwyw.dll)” and then hit Enable.
• After doing that, close Word as well as all other Office programs and then restart Word. The EndNote tab should reappear in the Ribbon on the top of the screen.

How to Cite While You Write?

One of the main reasons why people use EndNote is to cite references. CWYW (Cite While You Write) is EndNote's signature feature that makes citing easy. Below are the steps to citing while you write a paper in Word:

• Make sure the EndNote tab is displayed in Word.
• You may start your document by using one of the templates in EndNote (under the Tools menu) or you can start from scratch.
• Write REFERENCES at the bottom of the document so that all the cited references will be listed beneath it.
• In your document, place the cursor where you want to insert in-text citations.
• You may choose Go to EndNote or the Search button (the magnifying glass over a closing quotation mark) to insert references.
• If you choose Go to EndNote, click Go to EndNote and you will be taken to your EndNote library. Highlight the reference(s) you want to insert, then click the Insert Citation button (the closing quotation mark icon on the top), your reference(s) will be inserted. The corresponding reference(s) will be listed beneath REFERENCES in the style you chose. You may change the style at any time as long as you have not converted the document to plain text. See the screen shot below for illustration:

• If you choose the Search option, click on the Search button (the magnifying glass over a closing quotation mark). A search box will pop up. Enter search terms and the references containing the terms will be retrieved. Highlight the reference(s) you want to insert, then click the Insert button at the bottom of the popup window. Your reference(s) will be inserted. The corresponding reference(s) will be listed beneath REFERENCES in the style you chose. You may change the style at any time as long as you have not converted the document to plain text. Below is to show you how to search in Word for a reference in EndNote:

Method 1

1. In Word place your cursor where you want the citation to appear
2. Click on the Insert Citation icon on the EndNote 20 toolbar
3. Type a keyword, author or title into the search box (to see all references type the letter 'a')
4. Highlight the reference you want
5. Click Insert
6. The citation will appear in text, and be added to your bibliography (if your style has one).

Method 2

1. In Word, position your cursor where you want the citations to appear
2. Click  button on the EndNote 20 toolbar in Word
3. This will take you to your EndNote library
4. In your EndNote library select one or more references (use command ⌘ and the mouse to select multiple references)
5. Select Tools and then Cite While You Write and then Insert Selected Citations
6. The references will appear in alphabetical order in your text and be added to the bibliography if your style has one.

To download and install the Cite While You Write™ plug-in to use with Word:

1. Make sure you are logged onto EndNote™ (http://www.myendnoteweb.com) in a Web browser, and then click the Download Installers link at the bottom of any page.
2. Click the Download macOS link to download the Cite While You Write installation disk image.
3. Make sure no applications are running.
4. Double-click the Cite While You Write.dmg file.
5. Double-click the Install Cite While You Write text.
6. Click Open if asked "Are you sure you want to open it?".
7. Select the Standard Installation.
8. Click Next.
9. Click Done.

Our best-in-class Cite While You Write tool makes it easy to insert your EndNote references into Google Docs document. Cite While You Write automatically creates, formats, and reformats in-text citations and reference lists. EndNote Cite While You Write add-on now has a native integration with Google Docs and is the perfect tool for collaboration with your research colleagues. It allows you to pool your references with your collaborators' references. Cite Wile You Write has a direct integration with your EndNote 21 Web account.

To add EndNote Cite While You Write add-on in Google Docs via Marketplace:

You can use the following link:

https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/endnote_cite_while_you_write/948545547135

• Click Install.
• Review T&Cs and privacy policy and click Continue to proceed
• Sign into your Google account and allow Cite While You Write to access

• Open EndNote Cite While You Write Extension – Open link may take a moment to appear, this is a function of Google

 Note: Security alert emails will be sent to the email account associated with Google account; these are standard to notify access was granted to CWYW. Users may review activity and take action.


You can also do a search for the Add-on:

• Open Google Docs
• Navigate to Extensions
• Click Add-ons and select Get add-on

• Search for: EndNote or EndNote Cite While You Write

• Click on the EndNote Cite While You Write
• Click Install

• Review T&Cs and privacy policy and click Continue to proceed
• Sign into your Google account and allow Cite While You Write to access

• Open EndNote Cite While You Write Extension – Open link may take a moment to appear, this is a function of Google

 Note: Security alert emails will be sent to the email account associated with Google account; these are standard to notify access was granted to CWYW. Users may review activity and take action.

 Important: For customers to log into CWYW in Google Docs, they must have an EndNote 21 web account.



If you have not registered for an online account with EndNote 21 Click Here

Sharing Behavior:

1.    Multiple users can insert citations at the same time and the user can see the references added by other users but no way to track which references are cited by whom.

Important: When a user is editing or adding a citation and another user updates the document at the same time, the changes made by the first user in the citation are removed.

Manual Text Edits:

1.    Manual edits to the citations and bibliography are ignored, as it reverts to the original format every time citations are updated.

2.    If a user deletes/cuts a citation, and then undoes the action with CTRL-Z, the citation comes back.

Important: Copying citations and pasting them somewhere else in the document or cutting text and pasting it somewhere else in the document (where a full citation is inside, not just part of one) will break the involved citation, those will no longer be recognized by CWYW add-on, won't appear in the manage citations screen, and won't be formatted by the update citations process.

Note: Currently, Footnote Citation Styles are not available.