Guides @ UF: BME3012: Clinically-Inspired Engineering Design: Managing Your References

These programs will save you hours--literally!--of time. Citation management software can store all your articles and reformat them to meet the requirements of just about any journal. Just remember to proofread your works cited (or bibliography or references) page in case a citation wasn't formed properly in a database.

Find out more on our Citation Management guide.

Getting References from PubMed into a citation manager

You can get references into a reference manager in two different ways:

You can use a capture tool in your browser to export your citations into any citation management software program such as:
Follow the 3 steps below to export citations using PubMed's Citation Manager tool:

In your search results, use the citation check boxes to select citations. To export all the citations do not select any citations.
From Send To, select Citation Manager.
Import this saved file into your citation management program.

Using A Citation Style

When using a style be sure to refer to the style manual (APA, AMA, IEEE, etc.).

Also, if you are using EndNote Basic make sure to add this style to My Favorites for easy access in MS Word.