PSM Journals require journal titles to be abbreviated. You can download the EndNote Library Style bibliography template here.
Term lists for abbreviated journal titles are included with EndNote; however, your library must activate it.
Have you done this?
If not, do the following:
- Open the EndNote Library
- Go to EndNote Preferences under Edit and choose Term List
- Uncheck the bottom two boxes
Then go to
Tools –> Open Term lists –> Journals Term list
If the number of journal terms in the list is less than several 1000, you have not imported the term list.
Click on one of the journal names and click Ctrl A (Highlight everything) –> Delete Term (Nothing is deleted in your library)
Click on the “List” tab and click on “Journals” to get it highlighted.
Import list –> Choose the file “Medical” –> Open file *
You will now get a message telling you that 13.000+ terms are imported. Close widows.
EndNote will now select standard abbreviations from the term list if you use a style that has been set to use them.
* If the correct folder with the medical.txt file doesn’t open directly, you will find this file in Programs –> EndNoteX7 –> Term lists.
The same way you can import other lists.
Adding new abbreviations
You can add new abbreviations for journals not appearing in the original terms list. Go to Tools > Open Terms Lists > Journal Terms List.
- Find the full journal title and click the “Edit Term” button; or,
If the journal title is not in the terms list, click the “New Term” button, and then enter the full journal title and the abbreviation.