Exporting Citations from CrossFire to EndNote

We have prepared some tips on exporting citations from CrossFire into EndNote, which might be of benefit. Note that not all references have titles and abstracts. Exporting only works if you have your results displayed as 'Citations' (as opposed to 'Structures' or 'Reactions') and if you're using post-1980 citations.

Using the MDL defaults:

1. Create a Hitset in Citation format
2. Click Export Hits
3. Select Procite/Endnote/Reference Manager
4. Choose the references you wish to export
5. Save the file as a .txt file in a directory of your choice
6. Start Endnote
7. Create a new library
8. Click File then Import, and select the .txt file just created
9. Select Reference Manager (RIS) as the Import Option
10. Import

Changing settings to include abstracts:

1. Create Hitset in citation format
2. Click Export Hits
3. Select Settings
4. Select Procite/Endnote/Reference Manager
5. Click Edit
6. Next
7. Next
8. Click Select Facts to View
9. Select Export to Endnote
10. Edit
11. On the left-hand side, expand Bibliographic Information
12. Expand Abstract
13. Highlight Abstract
14. Copy to right-hand side using >>
15. OK
16. Apply
17. Replace field names
18. New
19. Old name AB
20. New name AB - (NB: there must be 2 spaces between AB and the hyphen)
21. OK
22. OK
23. Next
24. Finish
25. Yes to overwrite file when prompted
26. Start Export
27. Launch Endnote as before

Once you have done this, in future you can just use the Export function as in the first set of instructions above ('Using the MDL defaults').

Note - rather than having to go through the tiresome process of set up through the Export Wizard as above for both Beilstein and Gmelin, you can fetch the updated export settings files from http://www.mimas.ac.uk/crossfire/software/export/endnoteabsv7.zip and (after unzipping them) copy the files Citations_Endnote_AE8.exs and Citations_Endnote_GM6.exs into the
\Program Files\MDL CrossFire Commander 7.0\group\export\ directory of your installation and the files Endnote_AE8.udf and Endnote_GM6.udf into the
\Program Files\MDL CrossFire Commander 7.0\group\view directory, replacing the existing files of the same name.