Travelling libraries
Get references from a shared document and make a library from them.
Sharing and saving travelling libraries
"Travelling library" refers to EndNote citations that have been embedded in a Microsoft Word document.
If that document is shared, the citations can be exported from the document into a new or exisiting EndNote library.
You can confirm if you are using a travelling library in your MS Word document by going to Edit & Manage Citations from the toolbar. You will see the name of the library being used.
To share a travelling library, send a copy of a formatted document.
To open and save a travelling library to EndNote
- Open the Word document.
- (Windows) From the EndNote tab, select Export to EndNote, then select Export Traveling Library.
- (Mac) From the Tools menu, go to the EndNote submenu, and then select Export Traveling Library
- On the Export Traveling Library dialog, select either:
- An existing EndNote library OR a new EndNote library: You will be prompted to name and save the new library.
OR
- Open the Word document containing the travelling library, and your Endnote library
- In Endnote, go to the Tools menu - Cite While You Write - Import travelling library
Note: the travelling library does not contain Notes, Abstracts, Figures or Captions.