Importing Terms Into Term Lists
EndNote provides fourteen lists of journal names and abbreviations, including lists for Chemistry, Medicine, and the Humanities; all of which are stored in the \\EndNote 2025\Terms Lists folder. If you are interested in using these abbreviated forms of the journal names in your bibliographies, you can import them into your term lists and adjust your styles to use the abbreviations.
Note: See List of All Journals Cited in PubMed® for a current list of medical journal names and abbreviations, in case you need to add journal names in the medical sciences to the provided list. Sometimes you may be told to use the "Index Medicus" journal names. Index Medicus ceased publication in 2004 (see the May-June 2004 NLM Technical Bulletin article Index Medicus to Cease as Print Publication), so the PubMed list is the current resources for finding official medical abbreviations.
If you would like to look at the lists before importing them, you may open them in your word processor—but do not edit or save them. They must remain tab-delimited text files in order for EndNote to correctly import the terms.
Terms can be imported from any text file that lists the terms one per line. Make sure a carriage return is also inserted after the last term in the list. If you create a list of terms in a word processing document, be sure to save the list as plain text using the Save As command in your word processor. Then, if your terms include extended characters, select the Unicode (UTF-8) encoding option.
To import a text file that contains terms other than journal names (see Loading Supplied Journal Abbreviations for journal names):
- From the Library menu, select Define Term Lists and highlight the term list to which you want to add terms. Use Create List if you want to create a new list.
- Click Import List.
- Select the text file to be imported and click Open.
The new terms are imported and sorted alphabetically into the existing term list. This import must be done for each library in which you want to use these terms.