

Like all mobile citation managers, EndNote is designed to be used independently of its desktop counterpart. The syncing works effectively and any references that I collected on my iPad were easily synced back onto the web and from there onto my Mac. Once I had logged in, my saved articles all downloaded quickly and efficiently onto my iPad. The Dropbox integration is very useful as it allows you to import PDFs directly into the app. Setting up EndNote is remarkably simple and accomplished by simply logging in to your EndNote Online account (free) and optionally linking EndNote to Dropbox. On first impressions, the app is powerful and has plenty of features. The first thing to mention is that the delay in finally getting an EndNote app has been worth the wait. This all changed recently with the release of EndNote for iPad. However, recently there has been two new big contenders on the scene Mendeley and EndNote. EndNote is well known and perhaps the original citation manager however, they have been slow to release a dedicated iPad version. When it comes to citation management software on mobile iOS devices, there has really only been two dedicated options: Papers and Sente.
