Exporting Word’s Traveling Library to an EndNote Library
There may be occasions where you want to copy all of the references used in a Microsoft Word document to an EndNote library. Perhaps you received only the formatted Word document from a colleague, and would like to create EndNote references to use later. Or, you may have a large EndNote library, but want to create a smaller EndNote library with only the subset of references used in your paper.
Note: The Traveling Library does not contain Notes, Research Notes, Abstracts, Figures, or Captions.
To export references from a Word document to an EndNote library:
- Open the document in Word.
- On the EndNote 2025 tab, select Export to EndNote, and then select Export Traveling Library.
- On the Export Traveling Library dialog, select either:
- An existing EndNote library: Select a library from the drop-down list of open libraries, or click Browse to locate a library.
- A new EndNote library: You will be prompted to name and save the new library.
Notes: We recommend that you export to a new EndNote library, so you can review the records before adding them to an existing library.
When you use the Export Traveling Library command, the exported references are renumbered and do not retain their original record numbers.