Hello,
Sometimes, I download references that I don’t necessarily use in my text writing and I wish to delete them from the library.
Is Endnote able to highlight non-cited references and mark them to be savely deleted in one mouse clic?
Say, we have 200 references in a library but we cited only 100, is Endnote able to find the 30 remaining non-cited references to delete them and keep the library clean?
If it does not, could this be a suggestion for a next update, please?
Thank you
Yes, indeed, I have a separated libraries for different manuscripts!
Do you think it is a bad idea to have different libraries for differents manuscripts?
Do you mean selection in Endnote or in text editor?
Some time ago I had a big problem with Endnote!
Actually, I had a library with more than 2000 references. Some of them have been imported directly from Pubmed via Endnote, many others from their editors’ websites (as pubmed does not index everything).
So many duplicated were imported but Endnote wasn’t able to find them because of slightly different formats (presence or absence of a comma, period, difference in initial name order…etc).
I therfore had to manually deleted them without any care if I delete the cited reference or its duplicated copy!
When I wanted to format the final version, Endnote was always asking to search for missing references!
I deleted all and had to restart from zero !
Since, I am cautious to have a clean library for each manuscript, even there is no direct link between two issues!
Come back again to this thread as the given solution didn’t work for me!
When I select all and clic Ctrl+M nothing happens!
I looked for some option/function/trick/tip that allows selecting non used ref in the library.
This should be easy done from the manuscript but I don’t figure it!
When we clic on the biblio list in the doc all ref are selected (shaded), why they are not selected in parallel in Endnote library too? If selecting or shading references in the manuscript is reflected on endnote library, it will be easy to find and removed non used references.
It would be useful if we can click on a given reference in the biblio and see it also selected or highlighted in endnote library. Or better, when clic on a reference in Endnote library, il will be highlighted in the corresponding text in word! This will allow see if a reference is present in the body text or not. If not, user can easily remove it.
3 steps may be followed to separate the used and unused references as;
Open Word file and also EndNote Library for that particular word file.
Click ----> “All References” in the left corner of EndNote, and then ----->Ctrl +A to “select” all references in the references box. Then ------> click word file icon on below All References icon in the EndNote, the click once again All References icon to highlight those references in with are cited in the Word File. All those references are highlighted (light in colour) in the reference box.
“Right Click” the on any of the highlighted references, " select “Copy References” then Click ------> "New Library to create a new library and name it. Only used references are exported to the new library. Delete the old library. JOB DONE
