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EndNote Cite While You Write (CWYW) tools in Google Docs 

    The Cite While You Write tool makes inserting your EndNote references into Google Docs documents easy. Cite While You Write automatically creates, formats, and reformats in-text citations and reference lists. EndNote Cite While You Write add-on now has 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 While You Write has direct integration with your EndNote 21 Web account.

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

    To add EndNote Cite While You Write add-on in Google Docs via Marketplace, use the following link: https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/endnote_cite_while_you_write/94854554713

    1. Click Install.
    2. Review T&Cs and privacy policy and click Continue to proceed
    3. Sign into your Google account and allow Cite While You Write to access
    4. Open EndNote Cite While You Write Extension in your Google document (Google document>Extensions>EndNote Cite While You Write)– The 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 the Google account; these are standard to notify access was granted to CWYW. Users may review the activity and take action.

    You can also search for the Add-on directly in Google Docs

    1. Open Google Docs
    2. Navigate to Extensions
    3. Click Add-ons and select Get Add-on
    4. Search for EndNote or EndNote Cite While You Write
    5. Click on the EndNote Cite While You Write
    6. Click Install
    7. Review T&Cs and privacy policy and click Continue to proceed
    8. Sign into your Google account and allow Cite While You Write to access
    9. 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 the Google account; these are standard to notify access was granted to CWYW. Users may review the activity and take action.

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

    Sharing Behavior in Google Docs

    • Multiple users can insert citations simultaneously, and the user can see the references added by other users but has 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 simultaneously, the changes made by the first user in the citation are removed.

    Manual Text Edits in Google Docs

    • Manual edits to the citations and bibliography are ignored, as it reverts to the original format every time citations are updated.
    • If a user deletes/cuts a citation and undoes the action with CTRL-Z, the citation returns.

    Important: Copying citations and pasting them somewhere else in the document or cutting text and pasting it somewhere else in the paper (where a full citation is inside, not just part of one) will break the involved citation; those will no longer be recognised 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.