Can I import References from an existing bibliography that I have composed in Microsoft Word or another word processor?
The only way to import references from a Word document or any other text file is if the contents can be “tagged” for standard bibliographic fields such as author, title, journal, and date. You then must save the file as a text file. For details, see the EndNote Manual’s section on Creating Structured Text Files that EndNote Can Import. For references which can be found in online catalogs or databases, importing references from those sources may be less time-consuming while offering the advantage of providing additional data for your records. Other options are to copy and paste data from the original document into EndNote records. Several attempts have been made to try to import untagged references from text documents into bibliographic databases. Some examples include cb2Bib and CrossRef Simple Text Query.
