How do I download online citations into Word 2007 (References)?

[JoanZ]

I'm using the Word 2007 References feature to manage my bibliographies. I've
been entering author, title, etc. manually. Is there a way to
export/download citations directly from academic journal databases directly
into the Word Reference manager so I don't have to do this manually? It sure
would help when managing many sources!

Usually, when in these databases, you can choose to download the citation
into a citation manager, but Word is never on the list. It's RefWorks,
EndNote, etc. It's probably something really simple, right? Thanks for your
help!

 

[Yves Dhondt]

Depends on what the database offers as export capabilities.

If it can export to the open xml format for bibliographies as defined in
ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC 29500:2008‎ you can simply uses the 'Browse...' button
on the 'Manage Sources' dialog to import your downloaded references.

If it can't export to that format directly, you might want to check out
Bibutils (http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/). Conversion
is a two step process with those tools. First you would convert your
references to MODS. Then you can use xml2wordbib to convert the MODS entries
to open xml sources. The result could again be used in Word through the
'Manage Sources' dialog. A downside of Bibutils is the double conversion
(something => MODS => Word 2007) which is not a 1-on-1 mapping and can cause
data loss. So you might want to verify your sources after conversion.

Yves