Connect your EndNote reference library to Claude AI. Search references, read PDFs, format citations, find related papers, and generate bibliographies
Connect your EndNote reference library to Claude AI. Search references, read PDFs, format citations, find related papers, and generate bibliographies — all directly in Claude Desktop conversations. Exposed over MCP by the endnote mcp mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
search_references — Search by author, title, year, keywords, abstract (BM25 ranked, with DOI links)search_fulltext — Search inside PDF content — find concepts, quotes, methodssearch_library — Combined metadata + PDF search in one callsearch_semantic — Search by meaning using AI embeddings (requires endnote-mcp[semantic])get_reference_details — Full metadata for a reference (abstract, keywords, DOI, etc.)get_citation — Format as APA 7th, Harvard, Vancouver, Chicago, or IEEEget_bibtex — Export references as BibTeX entries for LaTeXget_bibliography — Generate a formatted bibliography for multiple referencesfind_related — Find similar references (uses embeddings when available)read_pdf_section — Read specific pages from a PDF attachmentlist_references_by_topic — Broad topic-based listingrebuild_index — Re-index after updating your EndNote libraryendnote-mcp on PyPI is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Endnote MCP's toolset — search_references, search_fulltext, search_library and 9 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by gokmengokhan; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_references | Search by author, title, year, keywords, abstract (BM25 ranked, with DOI links) |
| search_fulltext | Search inside PDF content — find concepts, quotes, methods |
| search_library | Combined metadata + PDF search in one call |
| search_semantic | Search by meaning using AI embeddings (requires endnote-mcp[semantic]) |
| get_reference_details | Full metadata for a reference (abstract, keywords, DOI, etc.) |
| get_citation | Format as APA 7th, Harvard, Vancouver, Chicago, or IEEE |
| get_bibtex | Export references as BibTeX entries for LaTeX |
| get_bibliography | Generate a formatted bibliography for multiple references |
| find_related | Find similar references (uses embeddings when available) |
| read_pdf_section | Read specific pages from a PDF attachment |
| list_references_by_topic | Broad topic-based listing |
| rebuild_index | Re-index after updating your EndNote library |
{
"mcpServers": {
"endnote": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["endnote-mcp"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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