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Using a Reference Manager

Karen Drexler, M.D.

Emory University

Alcohol Medical Scholars Program

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Objectives

• Understand why to use a reference manager

• How to organize references in a database

• How to search the scientific literature

• How to incoporate references in a document

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Why Use a Reference Manager?

• It’s easy and it makes life easier– Easy to learn– Easy to manage references– Easy to insert into a document– Easy to format bibliography

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Managing References

• What is a database (library)?

• How to create a library in EndNote

• How to enter new references

• How to enter PDF files into a reference manager

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Modifying Reference Styles

• Close active libraries and references

• Click on Edit menu

• Choose Preferences

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Searching for References

• Connect function in EndNote– Author and Title/Keyword/Date– Medical Subject Headings– Other

• Import from a search engine (OVID)

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Using the Connect Function

• Create or open a library

• Connect to a database

• Develop a search strategy

• Move references from the database into a library

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Develop a Search Strategy

• Author + Title/ Date/ Any field

• Keywords– Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)– National Library of Medicine

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Importing from a Search Engine

• Develop search strategy

• Conduct search

• Review references

• Import

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Searching within a Library

• Scroll

• Highlight + first letter of last name

• Search references

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Incorporating References into a Document

• Open a Word document

• Open an Endnote library

• Highlight a reference

• Insert into the document

• Format bibliography

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Easy Does It

• Create libraries

• Find, store and organize references

• Insert references into a document

• Format references into a style