Using Drag-and-Drop to Create an Instant Bibliography

"Drag-and-drop" is a way of moving or copying selected text (or other items) by clicking on the text and dragging it to a new location. Simply release the mouse button when the cursor is over the destination, and the text will either be moved or copied to the new destination.

If your word processor supports drag-and-drop, you can drag a bibliography from EndNote directly into your paper.

To drag your bibliography:

Open your library and select the desired references.
Select the necessary style from the Output Style submenu of EndNote’s Tools menu.
Hold down the Ctrl key as you drag the references from the library and drop them directly onto a word processing document in the background.

This creates a fully formatted bibliography with the references formatted and sorted according to the selected style. The font used for the bibliography in this case is the EndNote default font. You can change the font in your word processor.

If your word processor does not support drag-and-drop, see The Copy Formatted Reference Command.

Note: Dragging with the Ctrl key pressed transfers the formatted references to the word processing document. If you do not hold down the Ctrl key, only the temporary citation is transferred. Use this latter method to cite references in your paper.