Setting Google Scholar Preferences and Exporting Citations into EndNote

November 2011 Kacy Allgood allgoodk@iupui.edu

Setting Google Scholar Preferences

To export Google Scholar citations into Endnote, youll need to set preferences in Google Scholar.

Visit http://scholar.google.com/

Click on the Options gear in the upper right corner, as shown below.

Click on Scholar Preferences

Scroll down to the Library Links section. (Your webpage may look somewhat different than image shown

below.)

Check to see if the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Find it @ IUPUI is available. If this is an

option, check this box, and uncheck the remaining boxes, as shown below.

If no checkboxes appear, search for the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis in the search box.

Select the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Find it @ IUPUI box. (The IU Bloomington Link is

not useful for the IUPUI Campus, the two campuses have different library subscriptions.)

Wait! Youre not done! Keep scrolling to the bottom of the page. In the Bibliography Manager box, select Show

links to import citations into EndNote.

Click Save Preferences

Exporting Google Scholar references into EndNote

These are instructions for downloading citations one-by-one into Google Scholar. To download multiple Google Scholar

citations, please skip to the next section, Importing multiple citations from Google Scholar

Visit http://scholar.google.com/ to search for articles.

Search Google Scholar. The resulting list of articles should give you an option to export the article into EndNote,

or to find the full text at IUPUI.

Click Import into EndNote

Select the Open with EndNote Option, and click OK.

This will open your EndNote Library, and your citation will be added to your Imported References folder.

Importing multiple citations from Google Scholar

Download and install Zotero from http://www.zotero.org/. When you restart Firefox, you will see Zotero at the bottom of the Firefox browser. Click on Zotero . This will open Zotero on the bottom of your screen.

Click on the yellow folder in the web browser address bar. This will open a small window with checkboxes.

Check the boxes of the articles you would like to download. Click OK. Your selected articles will appear in the Zotero box at the bottom of the screen.

NOTE: Try to avoid those citations that, in Google Scholar, have [CITATION] in front of them, as these do not have volume or pagination information, and frequently seem to hang-up Zotero during import. With some effort you can tell which citations these are in the Zotero "select-items window" as the citation will starts with an empty space. Don't select these as they will cause the download to fail. (University of Illinois)

You can keep searching, sending additional records to Zotero for eventual export from Zotero. (1) Export Records from Zotero, into EndNote

Select the Zotero records you want to export. Select multiple entries by using the control key.

Right click on the selection, choose Export Selected Items.

Select RIS

Click OK

Save the file.

In EndNote, select File, Import

Browse to the Exported Items file that was downloaded from Zotero. The Import Option should be Reference Manager (RIS).

Click Import.

Your references should appear in the Imported References folder.

12/12/2011 KA