Saving and exporting citation details keeps your scholarly sources organised for referencing in your essay or research paper. Using a reference management tool, such as EndNote, is the most efficient way to manage your citations.

The process of selecting and saving/exporting will be slightly different between search platforms and databases (see below for examples), but once you know how to do this in SuperSearch or a library database, you can easily figure out how the process works in a different platform. Keep in mind that the full text PDF may have to be downloaded separately.

For some databases, you will need to set up a free profile before you can download your citations. This can be useful, since your profile also enables you to set up alerts.

This example demonstrates how to save, email and, using EndNote, export citations from the Web of Science database.

This example demonstrates how you can drag and drop saved PDF documents or files, and import an article from PLoS One to generate references in your Mendeley Library.