Global Public Health Research Guide: Exporting to PubMed & Web of Science

Part 1 – Mark the articles and Save the file

1. Do your search in PubMed
2. Check the boxes next to the articles that you want to save.
   • You can also save up to 2500 at a time, just leave the articles unchecked.
3. Click on Send To on the upper right side of your screen.
4. Choose Citation Manager 
5. PubMed will create a citations.nbib file. Save it to your computer (someplace easy to find like the desktop).

NOTE: If the .nbib file does not work, try choosing File and select Medline, it will create a pubmed.txt file.

Part 2 – Import to RefWorks

1. Log in to RefWorks
2. In the RefWorks menu click on References  and then Import
3. Under Import from a File, you can either drag and drop the citations.nbib (or pubmed.txt) file to the box
4. Refworks should recognize it as NLM PubMed (if not, choose it from the options)
5. Click Import
6. The citations will be uploaded to your Last Imported folder. 

Part 1 – Mark and Save the .txt file

1. One reference at a time
   1. Once you’ve found an article you want to import, click the “Save to Endnote” and change that to Save to Other File Formats”

2. Click Send to “Other Reference Software” and click “Save”
3. A file called “savedrecs.txt” should automatically download.

2. Multiple references
   1. Check the articles you want to save and add them to the Marked List

2. Go to your Marked List

3. Click the “Save to Endnote” and change that to Save to Other File Formats”
4. Click Send to “Other Reference Software” and click “Save”
5. A file called “savedrecs.txt” should automatically download.

Part 2 – Import to RefWorks

1.  In RefWorks, Click the References Tab and click “Import”
2. Under “From Text File” set the pull-down menus to
   • Thomson Reuters
   • Biological Abstracts
3. Click “Import”
4. Check the Last Imported Folder