Importing Endnote Database into Word's Citation Database

[Richard_Parker]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I upgraded to Word 2008 without realising Endnote wouldn't work. Word's citation system seems adequate for my needs, but I have a significant number of citations already loaded in Endnote. Is there an easy way to import these into Word without having to retype (or copy and paste) every single field for every single reference?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

You can use EndNote with Word 2008, sort of. You can insert unformatted
citations using drag and drop or copy/paste from Endnote, and then you
can use EN's Format Paper command to format the citations as if you
didn't use Word at all. You might have to save as RTF first, I forgot.
Check the EN manual on Format Paper (or Scan RTF, depending on EN version).

In this thread, joonhwan has posted an alpha or beta version of
something that imports from a bibtex file. I would think Endnote would
export to bibtext to allow you to use this tool (well, I don't really
know what bibtex is, but I know EN has lots of export format options).
Note that beta means use at your own risk and make copies first.
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Word/719

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

In this thread, joonhwan has posted an alpha or beta version of
something that imports from a bibtex file. I would think Endnote would
export to bibtext to allow you to use this tool (well, I don't really
know what bibtex is, but I know EN has lots of export format options).
Note that beta means use at your own risk and make copies first.
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Word/719

There is another way...

You can:
- Export to XML from EndNote.
- import the EndNote XML file into Papers 1.7
- Export from Papers straight into the Bibliography manager.

That might not be the perfect option for you though.
It is difficult to deal with large bibliography databases in Office and
the choices for formatting manuscripts are extremely limited at this
point.


Corentin

 

[mariagulinello]

I contacted tech support, and they told me either use an earlier
version of word (don't have one) or save as rtf and then format - the
problem is that if you have a lot of pages or a lot of refs it is very
flaky - it sometimes crashes, sometimes doesn't recognize the refs.
If you images, graphs tables etc in the doc and not just text, you are
going to want to tear your hair out. I have been using EndNote for 10
years (pretty much since it first came out) and the program is
consistently buggy, the tech support is useless and it is expensive
for the lack of utility. I am currently trying out bookends - anyone
have any ideas ? I am desperate and can't really hold my breath until
endnote comes out with a version that does what it needs to for my 300
bucks.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Maria,

You sound unhappy with Endnote anyhow. Some people are stuck with
EndNote because they collaborate and so Mac and Win users need to be
using the same program. If you aren't, why not switch to Bookends?

It may help if you don't work on the doc in RTF (although EN suggests
it). Use it in regular docx format, adding unformatted citations. When
you need to circulate the doc, save a COPY as RTF, format that one and
send it around, and continue to work with your .docx file. Not clear
from your message whether you are doing that.

I don't know what $300 bucks you are talking about--upgrade price on EN
is $110, and Student/Teacher Office is $150. Who did you pay $300 bucks to?

Daiya