If you are an EndNote user and want to try Biblioscape, you can easily transfer your bibliographic records from an EndNote database into a Biblioscape database. Follow the steps below to make the transfer.
| 1. | Start EndNote and click the menu command "Edit | Output Styles | Open Style Manager...". Then make sure the box before the "EndNote Export" item is checked. Now close the EndNote Styles window. |
| 2. | Next, we need to export the EndNote references as a text file. Inside EndNote, select "EndNote Export" as the "Bibliographic Output Style". For EndNote X2, this can be selected in the references window. |
For earlier versions of EndNote, this can be selected in the EndNote toolbar.
| 3. | In EndNote, click the menu command "File | Export...". Select "Text File (*.txt)" in the "Save as type" combo box, and select the export folder and enter a file name. Next to "Output Style:" at the bottom, make sure "EndNote Export" is selected. If not, please go to back to step 2 and select "EndNote Export" as the "Bibliographic Output Style". |
| 4. | Click the "Save" button. The records will be exported as a text file in EndNote Refer format. |
| 5. | Start Biblioscape. Select the folder where you want to import the records. Click the menu command "File | Import...". |
| 6. | Click the "Browse" button and select the file you just exported from EndNote. On the "Tagged Plain Text" tab, select "EndNote -- Refer" as the "Import filter". |
| 7. | Click the "Start" button to import the records. |
Note: Since EndNote version 8, text files exported from EndNote are encoded in Unicode (UTF-8). Since the current release of Biblioscape does not support Unicode, special characters like German umlauts cannot be imported correctly. You need to open the EndNote exported file with Windows NotePad first and then go to "File | Save As" and change the encoding to ANSI. Unicode support is planned for the next major release of Biblioscape. This conversion will not be needed for non-English users once Unicode is supported.