How to import references
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Import the references per type: Book, Book section, Edited book, Journal article, Report, Other.
- Export the references from Endnote: File=>export. Choose as output style: tab delimited and as type: rtf format
- Read the rtf file in wordpad and save it as a text file. These steps preserve the non-ANSI codes.
- Open the file in Textpad and make sure that all data of a reference record are on the same line
- In Textpad you can remove newlines where the next line does not start with a number as follows:
- Find with regular expression is checked: \n\([^0123456789]\) and replace with: , \1
- Check the result and save
- Read the textfile into excel with the import text function
- Insert an empty column at the left ( first column)
- Insert an empty row at the top and fill in as header:
- first column: Label
- Author column: Author
- Year column: Year
- Use the parseReference macro to generate the labels
- Labels must be unique, so check labels that are ambiguous
- Rename the header of the first column Label to Title
- per type the headers must be assigned the correct values:
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Links
http://unisa.libguides.com/content.php?pid=224578&sid=2908837 for exporting references http://www.ehow.com/how_12014808_open-tab-delimited-files-excel.html