Back in the main EndNote screen, click the dropdown box at the top of the screen, then “select another style”, and search for your previously created Output Style.

Go to “file” –> “save as” and save it to something descriptive like “record-number-only”.

Then, click “insert field” –> “Record Number” –> then press enter so that you curser goes to the next line in the text box.

Then, put your curser in the box below “generic”.

In the resulting screen, click “templates” under the heading “bibliography”.

In EndNote, go to Edit –> Output Styles –> New Style.

Don’t worry, you only have to do this once, and in the future it will all be set up for you! The output filter will include only the citation record numbers. First, create an output filter in EndNote Here’s how I take a truly random sample of citations from EndNote. Sorting by record number is one possible way to do it, but also isn’t truly random as it will retrieve articles added to the database most or least recently. For example, sorting by date will retrieve only very new or old articles.

So: what’s the best way to go about this? Sorting from a-z on any given field and selecting the top 10-20 articles isn’t likely to be truly random. The researchers will all screen the same random set of 10-20 articles and compare results before screening the entire set. Have you ever been asked to find a random set of citation from EndNote? This happens most often to me when researchers are testing out screening procedures, and want to ensure they are all interpreting the screening guidelines the same way.

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