Retrieving and Saving References

After a successful search, EndNote alerts you to the number of references that were found. You have the option of retrieving all of the references or a specific range of references. The order of the retrieved references reflects the way they were returned from the server—this is not necessarily alphabetical, chronological, or in order of relevance.)

How references are saved is determined by the current display mode.

Integrated Library & Online Search Mode

All groups and commands are available. When you download references from an online database. EndNote saves them to a group under the Online Search group set and to your open library.

If you decide that you do not want to keep the retrieved references, select them, and then move them to the Trash folder.

Note: We recommend that you use Online Search Mode if you do not want the references downloaded to the All References group.

Online Search Mode

If you are working in Online Search Mode (the default option), references are downloaded into a temporary library. To save references, highlight them, and then:

Another way to save references downloaded in Online Search Mode is to use the Copy and Paste commands from the Edit menu to copy individual references from Online Search Mode and then paste them into Local Library Mode.

Leave Online Search mode in one of these ways: