To import numerous citations from PubMed into your citation management program of choice, you need to use the "Send to: Citation Manager" menu in PubMed to export citations as an .nbib file that can then be used by many citation management programs.
- Use the check boxes to select citations from your search results or clipboard. You may move to other pages to continue your selections. Alternately, you can choose to save all results on the page or all results from the "Send to: Citation Manager" menu.
- Click "Send to" and choose "Citation Manager."
- Confirm the citations you want to export: Selection, All Results on This Page, or All Results (up to a maximum of 10,000).
- Click "Create File."
- Your web browser will prompt you to save the file on your computer.
- Import this saved file into your citation management program.