It is better to let BibDesk generate new cite keys for you, to avoid any further problems. You will most likely run into some parse problems, but just klick “keep going” to ignore these. This is the trick to make it work, since we removed the labels when exporting the file from EndNote. Use the “open using temporary cite keys” to open the exported library. The file exported from EndNote is called. Unhook the “export selected references” option to export the entire library. It should be exported as a text document using your altered BibTeX style. Export the libraryįrom the “File” menu, select export library. Save the template and go back to EndNote. If you have written “research notes” in EndNote and want to use them with BibDesk, you need to add those to the template, by adding a line for “annote”.ģ. In the editor, find the “Templates” part. What we want to do is to tweak the template file, and this can be done by opening the template editor in EndNote (it would have been much easier to do this in a text editor, but the EndNote templates are stored as binary files…).

Open the edit pane for the BibTeX style export If you don’t want to do these steps yourselves, you can download and see if the file I have created works for you. However, to make things easier for ourselves, we will start from this template. There is a BibTeX export template in EndNote, but for some strange reason this does not output a valid BibTeX file. Open EndNote and Select the BibTeX export in Endnote The process is based on using EndNote X2 on OSX and converting to a BibTeX file using the excellent free Bibdesk bibliography manager. I thought I wrote a blog entry about this the last time I struggled with it, but since I couldn’t find it I decided to write it up once again. For some reason this is much more difficult than it needs to be, and I always forget about how it c/should be done. Once in a while I need to convert an EndNote library to a BibTeX library.

Endnote basic and bibtex