Many researchers find searching the PubMed database a convenient alternative to Medline, which is a more fully-configured version of the same data, especially as PubMed records can be captured directly from EndNote. The disadvantage is that journal names in PubMed are abbreviated and are not suitable for use in citations and bibliographies. Fortunately full journal names can be made to appear in the output by modifying the Journal Title Term List.
When all the articles from PubMed have been captured in your EndNote library click on Tools/Open Term Lists/Journals Term List. This box shows all of the journals represented in the library (in their abbreviated form) - you are going to delete this list and replace it with the full list of Medline journals which comes with your EndNote software. Click on the first entry in the list, then scroll to the bottom of the list, hold down the shift key and click on the last one. This will highlight the whole list. Then click on the Delete Term button. Now click on the Lists tab and then Import List. Point at the Program Files/EndNote/Term Lists folder and select the file medical.txt. It will take a short time to import as their are nearly 9,000 titles in the list. Now close the Term List box.
One final step is needed for full journal names to display in output. Open your preferred bibliographic style by clicking on Edit/Output Styles and selecting the style you wish to use. Under Journal Name make sure that Use full journal name is selected. Click on File/Save and close the Edit Style window. Full journal names will now be used in this style. Use full journal name must be selected in any style you wish to use.
You may notice that some journal names are still appearing as abbreviations. This is because the journal was not covered by the imported list, but it can be added manually. Click on Tools/Open Term Lists/Journals Term List and then on New Term. Put the abbreviation under Abbreviation 1 and the full title under Full Journal. As you add new records from PubMed check to see whether you need to add more journal names to the list.
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this was very useful but I tried it and did not work at all. When I import the references from Pubmed, they are imported with the abbreviation and this does not seem to solve it.
(I use Endnote 9-Mac)
Hi Bahar
You seem to have misunderstood what is being said. This method will not change the records you get from PubMed but the way EndNote outputs them in your bibliographies
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