In the Document Results Window Click on Export You can select individual documents or click on All to select all the document records for export. In the Document Results window select the document records you want to export. To learn about connection files and how to use them, watch this helpful video.4. If you are conducting a literature review then its usually best to stick to the native search functions within the database you wish to search.ĮndNote comes with most of the connection files you need. So if you enter the phrase 'heart attack' that is all you'll get and your search results may suffer. When you type a word or phrase like heart attack into the PubMed search box, PubMed automatically searches synonymous terms like myocardial infarction at the same time. This is the big one: PubMed uses something called automatic term mapping. If you have a very unique term or author name you are following, it may be easy to have EndNote pull relevant citations to your library. If you are missing a known reference from your library, you can quickly add the citation and a pdf to your library.Ģ.

May be faster and easier to re-find the citations in an article citation database.Ĭonnection files allow EndNote to communicate with another database, allowing you to search a resource like PubMed from within EndNote.ġ. Cons: Messy or missing data that you need to clean up.See the Working with PDFs tab on this guide to learn more about this option.

Pros: EndNote may be able to generate a reference from a PDF.

Cons: We generally do not recommend this option for a literature review, since you are missing out on the native features of the database you are searching.

Pros: You can initiate a journal citation literature search from within the EndNote, connecting to PubMed and a variety of other databases.

Cons: Does not work with many commercial citation databases, like Scopus or PubMed.

Pros: This browser add-on scrapes citation data from a webpage.

Pros: Most databases have specific export utilities that allow you to work directly with Endnote, or allow you to download a file that you can then import into your EndNote library. Best Bet for accurately getting citations from article citation databases, like PubMed into EndNote.

There are four options for getting citation data into Endnote.

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