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SamtheEngineer
Copper Contributor
Jan 19, 2022

Method for auto-filling list of sources in Word from existing sources

I am working on an academic paper and I previously assembled a long list of citations simply by using the Citation Machine (Chegg) for IEEE citations and exporting the sources to my document by simple copy/paste into a numbered list instead of manually inputting each citation, field by field, into the Word Source Manager. Is there any way to paste a formatted citation into the Source Manager without having to input each individual field separately? I tried citing my journal sources using the Search tool under References->Research->Search, but that citation only consists of a title and url. 

 

Also, the Citation Machine has a function to export a list of sources to Word, but the export is a word file, not an .xml file, so I'm not sure if it can be transferred into the Source Manager easily.

 

Thanks in advance for any help

 

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  • Lenka_Kerumova's avatar
    Lenka_Kerumova
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 20, 2022

    Hello SamtheEngineer 

     

    Is the Citation Machine web based or installed? If installed, search for the local file where it stores the information. If web based, you would need some help from the support of the CM.

    • SamtheEngineer's avatar
      SamtheEngineer
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 20, 2022
      I don't think I need to do anything else with CM. It's web based and is outputting a list of sources that can be exported to the clipboard or in a text file. My question was, is there a way to copy an existing IEEE-formatted source and paste it into the Word Source Manager in a single action, instead of inputting the individual fields(Author, Title, Journal Name.....) one-by-one for each source? This would be helpful as I already have a considerable list of sources and I'm looking for the best way to import them into the Source Manager.

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