Rush Medical College Capstone Course

PubMed

• Perform your search in the PubMed database.  Check the box in front of the citations you want to keep.
• Click the “Send To” button and choose the Clipboard.
• PubMed will keep items in your clipboard for 8 hours, or until you log out.  You can go back to your search and add more items to the Clipboard if you like, or do another search and add items as you see fit.
• When you are finished searching and want to export to RefWorks, go into your Clipboard (click the word "Clipboard" underneath the search box).  
• Click "Send To" then "Citation Manager."  On the next page, click "Create File."

Your file will show up in your Downloads file folder, and as a recently downloaded file in the grey line at the bottom of your screen.  You have now saved your citations in a format that is readable to RefWorks;  now to import it.

• In RefWorks, create a folder for the project (if you haven’t already).
• Under “References” (top left), select “Import.” 
• From the Import Filter/Data Source Menu, select “NLM PubMed.”
• Do you see your folder icon in the grey bar at the bottom of your screen?  If so, you can drag your folder icon onto the “Choose File” button.   If it’s not there, you can find the recently imported folder in your Downloaded file.  Double click it, or drag and drop it on “Choose File.”
• Click the “Import” button.  They will automatically be entered into your Last Imported Folder in RefWorks.

To export items to RefWorks, Covidence or another citation manager, look in the grey bar (found at the top of your search results) for the words "RIS Export."   Note that you can also email citations (with links) to yourself in this bar.

You can export or email individual citations using the links in this bar, or you can save citations into a List and export/email the entire list at once by using the List function.  See "Saving Items in a List" in the tabs to the left for more information. 

The drop-down arrow next to "RIS Export" provides options for what information you'd like to export.  We recommend checking of all boxes so that all information is sent.

Clicking the "RIS Export" button will create a file that will be in your Downloads folder and will probably show in in the grey bar along the bottom of your screen.  This file is formatted for easy import into RefWorks, Covidence and many other citation managers.  You can find more information on importing into RefWorks here  and importing into Covidence here.