Citation management
Citation management programs like EndNote and Zotero are great time-savers for evidence synthesis. They can store and organize your citations, de-duplicate the results, and automatically format in-text citations and bibliographies in your manuscript.
See the University of Minnesota’s page on citation management for a comparison and overviews of these tools and resources on using them.
Once you've finished translating your search strategy to the syntax of each database you're searching, you will then:
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Run the search in each database.
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Export the results as a BibTeX, MEDLINE, RIS, or XML file and save those files.
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You may need to export your search results in smaller batches due to limitations of the database you are using.
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Import those files into a citation management program.