EndNote provides several lists of journal names and abbreviations, including lists for Chemistry, Medicine (Index Medicus), and the Humanities; all of which are stored in the Terms folder in the EndNote 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.
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:
From the Tools 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.
Note: EndNote provides several journal lists in the Terms folder of the EndNote folder. You may want to import one of these lists to add journal names to your Journals term list. See Loading Supplied Journal Abbreviations for more information.
Click Import List.
Select the text file to be imported and clickOpen OK. EndNote’s Medical, Chemical, and Humanities lists are in the Terms folder in the EndNote folder.
The new terms are imported and sorted alphabetically into the existing term list. This import must be done for each library that you want to use these terms.