Importing records from Libraries Australia

Libraries Australia is a service which allows you to search for and locate material in Australian and overseas libraries. e.g. Library of Congress, British Library Catalogue, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), Consortium of [British] University Research Libraries, [US] Library of Congress Catalogue, Singapore National Union Catalogue, Te Puna New Zealand National Bibliographic Database).

http://ezproxy.csu.edu.au/login?url=http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss

Records for resources for via Libraries Australia can be download in RIS format, and then imported into an EndNote Library.

see the CSU Library EndNote FAQs for details: http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/research/endnote/faqs/endnotefaqs5.html#libraries

Footnotes and EndNote CWYW

Having created a footnote or endnote in Microsoft Word, you can cite references in that footnote or endnote in the same way you cite them in the body of the document. The CSU Library EndNote Tutorial notes (Part 3) provide a step-by-step guide to creating footnotes using the Chicago 15th A output style.

see page 294 of the EndNote X1 User’s guide for more details http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/research/docs/EndNote.pdf

Corporate or institutional authors

When entering corporate authors, put a comma after the name:
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Apple Computer Inc.,

This ensures that the entire name is treated as a first name, so no name manipulation will be applied.

If your corporate author name includes a comma in the name itself, use two commas in place of the first comma:

University of California,, Irvine

EndNote treats this as a last name followed by a blank first name. Then, everything after the (blank) first name is appended, including a second comma in the name. The formatted result is the corporate name with the comma in place.

see page 139 of the EndNote X1 User’s guide for more details

http://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/research/docs/EndNote.pdf

Transferring references from a Word document to EndNote

Having discovered the potential of EndNote for managing references, organising and accessing electronic copies (PDFs), and generating a bibliography, new users will often ask if it is possible to convert a bibliography that they have previously created in Word, to an EndNote library. There is no easy way transfer the information in a Word document into an EndNote Library. The obvious options are to:

• Manually enter all your data into EndNote, using copy-and-paste.
• Locate the references in a database or library catalogue, and download them to EndNote using direct export or a filter. Using the connection file for the Charles Sturt University Library catalogue , or even downloading records from Libraries Australia can help with this process.
  
• Do some basic editing of the Word document so that the references can be imported into EndNote for further manual editing.

If you are working in the biomedical science area, and your bibliography consists largely of journal articles that would be included in the Pubmed database, you may be able to use the HubMed citation finder to automate much of the transfer to EndNote. In a test using a bibliography in a Word document with 20 references (originally found in Medline) I was able to locate and import 50% of these references directly into EndNote without any further editing using HubMed.

Further information and detailed instructions can be found in the EndNote FAQs maintained by the University of Queensland.