Exporting citations


ebrary supports exporting citations directly to RefWorks, EndNote, and Citavi, as well as pasting them into Microsoft Word or other text program.

To export the citation for an individual book, either:

  • From the list view returned by a search, click on the “EndNote & Citavi” or “RefWorks” button below the metadata
  • Or, from within QuickView, use the command in the InfoTools menu

To export the citations for a set of books:

  1. Put the books into a folder on your bookshelf
  2. Note, a book can reside in multiple folders on your bookshelf, so putting a book in a folder called “For Endnote”, for example, does not remove it from the other folder(s) you might have that book in
  3. Open the folder in your bookshelf
  4. Click on the “EndNote & Citavi” or “RefWorks” button above the list of titles

Note, the EndNote export can also be uploaded directly into EasyBib, NoodleBib (which is part of NoodleTools), or Zotero as well.

  • To open ebrary citations in EasyBib, NoodleBib, Zotero, and others, export ebrary citations via EndNote, then open the exported EndNote text file from within that other citation software
  • For more detail, see:  http://support.ebrary.com/kb/easybib

To export the citation for an individual book to Microsoft Word or other text program:

  1. Use the InfoTools, Copy command
  2. This will generate a citation in MLA or APA format as part of the copied text
  3. Then copy the citation part and paste it into Microsoft Word or other text program

 

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EndNote details


To create a citation file then open it in EndNote:

  1. First, from ebrary, export/save the citations:
    1. Go to your ebrary site
    2. From a search:
      1. Perform a search
      2. Select the book(s) whose references you want to export
      3. Click the EndNote button
      4. If given an option, click Save File.  Otherwise, the file should be downloaded as .action file into your Downloads folder
    3. Or, from a Bookshelf folder:
      1. Sign in to your personal ebrary account
      2. Add the books (whose references you want to export) to your ebrary bookshelf
      3. Select the Bookshelf tab
      4. Put the books in a folder.  You must put your references in a folder in order to export them to EndNote
      5. Click the folder name to view its contents.  Select Export entire document to EndNote
  2. Then, from EndNote, import the citations:
    1. Open EndNote and log in
    2. Select Import References on the Collect tab
    3. Click Browse and locate the file you exported above
    4. Select RefMan RIS as the Import Option
    5. Select Unfiled, or select or create a group to add the citations to
    6. Click Import
    7. Your citations are now in EndNote

If EndNote opens automatically when you click the EndNote button in ebrary

  1. Click the default option: Open
  2. EndNote will prompt you for the reference library in which you want to save the citation. Choose a library
  3. EndNote displays the library. The citation will be shown under Imported References

 

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Accessing ebrary citations in EasyBib, NoodleBib, or Zotero


To open ebrary citations in EasyBib, NoodleBib, or Zotero, export ebrary citations via EndNote, then open the exported EndNote text file from within EasyBib, NoodleBib, or Zotero.  Detailed steps:

  1. Go to your ebrary site and sign in to your personal ebrary account as usual
  2. Search for books or find them in your bookshelf
  3. Click the “EndNote & Citavi” button associated with a book
  4. The exported citation info for that book will open in a text file
  5. Save the text file
  6. Go to your EasyBib, NoodleBib, or Zotero application
  7. From within EasyBib, NoodleBib, or Zotero, open the saved text file
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