Exporting to EndNote XML

EndNote includes a proprietary XML output format which will allow other EndNote users to import your exported data into their library. This format is not designed to work with other bibliographic software applications.

The advantage to this format for transferring data between EndNote users is that text formatting such as italics, bolding, superscripts, and subscripts will be included. This would not be possible when exporting a plain text file, as must be done to transfer to other applications.

The data will be Unicode-compliant, so special characters and multiple languages will transfer without problems.

To export references from EndNote in the XML format:

1. Open the library from which you will export, and select the references you want to export.

• To export all of the references in the library, click the All References group.
• To export a subset of references, select a group or perform a search to show the subset of references you want to include. You can further limit the list of references to export by selecting just those references from the current reference list.

1. From the File menu, select Export.
2. From the Save file as type list at the bottom of the dialog, select the XML (.XML) format.
3. Do not select a style from the Output Styles list. This option is irrelevant when saving to XML.
4. Select the Export Selected References option, if desired. If you want to export all of the references in the current list, clear the checkbox.
5. Navigate to the folder where you want to save the file, enter a name for the exported file (keep the .xml extension), and click the Save button to save the file.

You now have a file you can give to a colleague who uses EndNote, which can easily be imported into their library.

Notes: The Export export feature creates a new file; it does not append to an existing file. If you enter the name of a file that already exists, that file will be overwritten.

The Export command exports only text; images are not included.