Biology 195E - Sponge Fluid Dynamics

Get Microsoft Office Free Using Office 365 With Your Bates Login

EndNote is designed to work with MS Word.  It is important to have MS Word installed and updated on your computer prior to installing EndNote.

Bates students can obtain Office 365 for free using the Office 365 program and your Bates login information.  Instructions for gaining access are described in the "Microsoft Office for Students" section of this Bates IT Help Desk on this webpage:

What software is available to Faculty, Staff, and Students for Free or at an Educational Discount?

Note that when you sign up, you must use your Bates Username appended by: @bcis.bates.edu (e.g. bbobcat@bcis.bates.edu).

After your Microsoft 365 account is activated, you must download MS Office to your computer.

If you have any trouble installing MS Office on your computer, please get help from the IT Help Desk on the main floor of Ladd Library.

Mac OS: Steps for Installation

To install the software, read through the following instructions once and then perform each step:

1. Quit the Microsoft Word application on your computer. This is important for installation of the EndNote "Cite-While-You-Write" (i.e. CWYW) plugin.
2. Download the installer for EndNote 21. The EndNote 21 installer can be accessed from off campus with an internet connected computer.  You will need to provide your Bates username and password before the file is available to you.

3. Open the EndNote Desktop installer and install the application on your computer.
4. Open Microsoft Word (if available on your computer) and confirm that the CWYW plugin was installed.

Windows OS: Steps for Installation

To install EndNote on a computer with a Windows OS, read through the following instructions once and then perform each step:

1. Quit the Microsoft Word application on your computer. This is important for installation of the EndNote "Cite-While-You-Write" (i.e. CWYW) plugin.
2. Download the EndNote 21 zip file. The EndNote 21 zip file can be accessed from off campus with an internet connected computer.  You will need to provide your Bates username and password before the file is available to you.

3. After downloading the .zip file, you MUST extract the file before running the installation.

   Right click on the .zip file and choose Extract All. From the location the files were extracted, you can run this installation.

4. Open the EndNote Desktop installer and install the application on your computer.
5. Open Microsoft Word (if available on your computer) and confirm that the CWYW plugin was installed.

Get the New and Improved J Exp Biology EndNote Citation Style Here!

It turns out the J Exp Biology citation style file provided by EndNote has a few problems.  Use this New and Improved J Exp Biology style file to avoid these problems in your bibliographies!.

• Download and open the J Exp Biology-Bates 2023 file.
• Select File -> Save as... to save the file to the EndNote program on your computer.

• Use the "Select Another Style..." option in the EndNote Summary tab to choose the J Exp Biology-Bates 2023 citation style.

Important Note: To see the journal title in journal article citations, you must enter the ISO4 abbreviation of the title in the "Alternate Journal" field of your EndNote citation record!!!

Exporting Your Bibliography From EndNote As Editable Text In Microsoft Word

Sometimes it is useful to be able to export a bibliography of selected references without having to insert the citations into a Word document.  This library guide page walks you through the steps necessary to do this.