Converting manually created in-text citations to EndNote

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Hi All,

I have a long literature review I wrote in Word 2010 for Mac, prior to having/using EndNote. When I created this document, I manually typed out each of my in text citations.

I am still using Word 2010 for Mac, but now I am using EndNote to insert citations.  

For this old document is there anyway to update my “manually written” in text citations to End Note inserted ones, without re-doing them all? All of the references used in this document are in my end note library already.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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If the in-text citations are author year citations then you can try the following. The steps will not work with numbered citations.

If you used an author/year output style, there is a trick you can use to simplify this process:

  1. In the document, do the following:

Windows Word 2007 and later with Endnote X1 and later : Go to the EndNote tab. Click the arrow icon directly to the right of  the “Bibliography” label.

Windows Word 2007 and later  with EndNote X and earlier : Go to the Add-Ins tab and choose “EndNote > Format Bibliography.”

Word X / 2000 / 2002(XP) / 2003 / 2004 / 2008 / 2011: Go to the “Tools” Menu and choose “EndNote > Format Bibliography.”

Mac Word 2016 with EndNote X7 and later : Go to the EndNote tab. On the Bibliography drop down choose “Configure Bibliography…”
2. Here, change the temporary citation delimiters to ( and ) , which should match the citations currently in the document.
3. Click OK, and the format process should begin. You will get an “EndNote Select Matching Reference” window, where you can insert the correct citation for the unmatched reference.
4. Please see our website for more information on how to select the correct reference to insert here.

 http://endnote.com/kb/81197