BibTeX, EndNote & CiteULike

March 16th, 2005 Stewart Posted in Uncategorized |

Okay, well, I’m probably only writing this one for myself alone, but here goes:

First off, I should say that CiteULike is one of the coolest apps for researchers and academics that I’ve seen in many a moon. Think of it as a giant online repository for your favorite articles. If you search PubMed, you can use the CiteULike posting tool to automatically add records to your personal list. You can then share your list with the world of CiteULike users. They, in turn, can download your selected list of articles, book chapters, etc. to their own bibliographic software, like EndNote.

What’s a little harder, tho by no means impossible, is uploading your EndNote library to CiteULike. I just did this and it seems to have worked out great, but there is a trick. For those brave few of you still reading, here’s what I did:

1. CiteULike can import files in BibTex format.
2. EndNote can export as BibTeX using the “BibTeX Export” style.
3. EndNote’s “BibTeX Export” has to be modified in v.8.0.2, but it’s a minor modification. Use EndNote’s Style Editor to change “Label” to “Record Number” for each reference type in the bibliography.
4. Export your library, using the new style. Save the file with a “.bib” extension.
5. Use CiteULike’s Import from BibTeX tool to import the records from your new .bib file.

All CiteULike libraries can be searched, exported, or viewed through RSS feeds. If you are doing any library work, you should definitely try this out.