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Any ideas how to cite references in R Markdown from Endnote library (.enl)? This webpage says it's possible but I can't get it to work.

If I export the .enl (available here, I zipped the .enl and data folder) into .xml (available here), it works:

---
title: "test"
author: guys
output: pdf_document
bibliography: Library_short.xml
---  

something something dark side... [@Marshall1989]

# References

I can also make it work if I convert the library into .bib (available here):

---
title: "test"
author: guys
output: pdf_document
bibliography: Library_short.bib
---

something something dark side... [@RN1]

# References

But it's not convenient, because every time I add a ref in Endnote I would have to export the .enl library into xml or bib. Thanks

Anthony D
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  • I have the exact same question but cannot find any answer to it. Are there any news on this? Is there a way to "push up" his question? – Frederick Aug 15 '18 at 11:24
  • old question, but I'm tackling this now and it looks like the citR package allows it : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/citr/index.html – user3479780 Jul 17 '20 at 02:13

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One method that I found, which may or may not be convenient is to simply copy and paste the reference from Endnote onto the R markup where the paranthetical citation would happen, such as {Stevenson, 2014 #566}. When it is compiled as a word document, you can simply click on update citations and bibliography in Word. This works for one-off reports, but I'd find it inconvenient if you are trying to make a number of reports.

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It seems as if Endnote is not working with Markdown since the identifiers are not allowed to start with a number - but Endnote identifiers are all numbers. Source: R Markdown Not Rendering Citation

Poza
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You will have to export your reference as a BibTex file. It is going to be downloaded as a txt file, you should change the extension into .bibtex and define the yaml as:

bibliography: "nameofthefile".bibtex

You can then open the file and search for the keys and insert into your main text. I hope this helps!

Marianna Sebő
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