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How to export a specific selection of references from Mendeley

I am contributing to a book, and I used Mendeley to manage the bibliography of my chapter. Now the editor has asked me to provide my list of references in a file format compatible with Zotero.

I can easily export the Mendeley collection as a .RIS file and import it to Zotero using this procedure, but I would not like to export the whole collection (more than 2000 entries), neither select the references manually one by one (about 100).

Is there a way I can automatically select the bibliography I used for my chapter in the Mendeley Desktop and then export it in a unique .RIS file?

I am using Mendeley Desktop version 1.18 on a Windows 8 machine.

Thanks for your help.

Solution

  • I've had success two ways:

    1. Create a folder and place all the items that were cited in the book chapter in that folder. Select the folder, highlight the records [Ctrl+A], then export those cites as the RIS file to upload to Zotero.

    2. Tag the used citations with a unique tag, select those records [Ctrl+A], and then export that collection as the RIS file.