Hi, my english is not that good so I will try to make my question clear, sorry if I don’t express myself as clear as I wished.
Usually in Endnote I have to search a reference in pubmed, that gives me the author, year, title, etc, and then I attach to it a pdf file.
But is it possible to put the pdf in Endnote, and then it automaticaly fills in the fields in the reference?
Because I have a lot of pdf and it’s really tedious to manualy search every single article in order to get their reference and then attach the pdf, if I could copy and paste all my pdf and be done with it it would be a great relief.
Yes, this is possible, but the pdf’s have to be professionally made with doi number. Please note that this will not work for all pdf-files. If it doesn’t work, you get a reference with the name of the pdf file as the only reference data. NB! You must be connected to the internet for this to work.
File → Import → File/Folder
Choose the pdf file or a folder with several pdf files.
For import option you have to choose “PDF” from the drop down menue.
Finish with “Import”.
EndNote will try to create references from the pdf file(s) and will also add the pdf file to the created reference(s).
A very last question though : is there a way to search the references for the pdf I’ve just imported but that have no doi number without creating a new file since I already have it in Endnote now?