KU Medical Library - Public Health Information

When researching and writing about Public Health it can be helpful to use a bibliographic management tool for assistance with citations. These help you by doing a number of things with citations such as:

• Collecting easily from databases
• Organizing within folders
• Sharing with colleagues
• Formatting in various citations styles

These tools are not perfect, but if you learn the basics of using them they can save you time. This gives you time for the important work of research and writing. 

There are a number of different citation tools available including:

• RefWorks: This is a web-based citation tool that is supported by the KU Library. You can find a medical-focused guide at library.ku.ac.ae/medical_refworks.
• EndNote: EndNote is a popular software tool with heavy researchers. 
• Mendeley: Now owned by Elsevier, Mendeley offers a free version. 
• Sciwheel: Schwheel includes free and paid versions. 
• Zotero: Zotero is a free citation tool with paid upgrades.

If you need help with any of these, please reach out to your Medical Librarian at jason.fetty@ku.ac.ae.

As with other databases, Embase offers you the ability to export your citations to citation management tools such as RefWorks, EndNote, and many others. This can be done for individual article citations or for bulk citations.

For a single citation, find and click Export to start the process.

For a set of articles you can export them in bulk. For example, from citation results you can use the check box at the top of the list of articles to export all of the citations, or you can select articles one-by-one by checking the box next to its name. You can also export citations you have save to your clipboard in bulk.

On the next screen you will see a dropdown menu that gives different options for saving citations. There are two main ways to export citations:

• RIS format: This will download a file of your citation(s) that you can then upload to a wide range of citation management tools like EndNote, Mendeley, RefWorks, etc. 
• RefWorks direct export: If you have a RefWorks account through KU, you can directly send your citation(s) to your RefWorks account. There are a few steps to complete the process. If this is not working for you, just use the RIS format file to upload manually into RefWorks.

From PubMed you can follow these steps:

• Save all the citations you wish to export to the Clipboard (under Send To)

• Click Save and then select Selection: All Results and Format: PubMed

• Go to RefWorks and Add --> Import references --> select a file from your computer

• Open the file and make sure it opens as NLM PubMed