When you are using the EBSCO interace to access our databases, such as CINHAL, you can export citations to be saved in citations managers such as Zotero and Mendeley. The following are instructions on how to do this.
From the Export Manager, you can save or e-mail citations in a format compatible with your bibliographic management software.
To save citations in bibliographic manager format:
From the citation result , click "Export" on the Tool Menu.
The Export Manager panel will appear.
Save citations to Direct Export in RIS Format
Select the option, Direct Export in RIS Formant and click Save.
Note where you save the file on your computer so you can locate it later when you need to import the citation into Zotero or Mendeley.
Open Zotero or Mendley to Import the citation.
Locate the Zotero or Mendely program on computer and open it, then follow the steps below to import the citation.
Import RIS File into Zotero
1. Click the "File" Menu in Zotero.
2. Select the "Import" option
3. Locate the "RIS" file you saved, and open it to import the citation into Zotero.
Import RIS file into Mendeley
1. Click the "File" menu in Meneley
2. Select "Import..."
3. Select "RIS - Research Information Systems"
4. Locate the "RIS" file and open it to import the citation into Mendeley.
