When I search for a citation on line using a library such as PubMed from within Endnote, when I find the citation I am looking for and click on the insert citation, endnote inserts the citation into my document appropriately but then includes not only the citation that I have selected into my library, but also all of the citations in the list which it found for me to choose from into my library.
I can work around this by first copying the reference to my local library then using cite while u write to add the relevant reference both to my document and to my library but I am hoping that someone has found a more elegant solution.
I am using endnote x4.
I have used most versions from 7 onwards although I have not been writing for the past 12 months and am just getting back into using endnote.
Certainly in the earlier versions I was able to dynamically use endnote while writing in word to search an on-line library, choose a citation from a list, and insert it into my document and save the refernce to it to my library without corrupting my library by adding all of the other unwanted citations.
This problem is not by design but a substantial failing and is noted in the faq’s with a promised solution.
I am merely asking if anyone has a work around.
I find it hard to believe that there is not a demand to be able to write, search the literature concurrently. Surely this is what cite while you write means.
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