A student grooming his library asked me yesterday whether there is a way to know if a reference has been used in a document. The reason being that he has a lot of references he suspects he doesn’t need, but he obviously doesn’t want to delete the references if they are linked to one or several documents.
Is there any way EndNote keeps a record of this? Either as a seperate record or per reference?
With EndNote X4 and later, there is an automatic group that gets created with contents of your document under the All References Group. If you open the document and library and use the “Update Citations and Bibliography” command from the EndNote tools in Word, the document auto-group will be generated with a listing of all the references used in your library for that document.