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PubMed Results and Citation Manager Software

Canese K. PubMed Results and Citation Manager Software. NLM Tech Bull. 2012 Mar-Apr;(385):e5.

2012 April 09 [posted]

The PubMed Send to menu was updated to include a "Citation manager" selection. Click the radio button for Citation manager, and then click the Create File button to download a text file (with an nbib extension) in the tagged MEDLINE format (see Figure 1).

Screen capture of citation manager creater.
Figure 1: Screen capture of citation manager creater.

You may then import the file into your citation manager software. If you encounter difficulties after you have imported the file into your citation manager software, please contact the software vendor.

By Kathi Canese
National Center for Biotechnology Information

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