References found from PubMed usually contain DOIs.

You may also find DOIs by searching PubMed directly from EndNote. If a matching record is found, it will update your record with updates found in PubMed. It will match your records against those in PubMed.

Under Reference menu, choose Find Reference Updates.

Highlight the references for which you need DOIs.

Below are the steps to using that feature: The easier way to get DOIs or other missing information for your references in EndNote is to use the Find Reference Updates feature.

Can EndNote get these DOIs for me? Is there an easy way to get the DOIs for my bibliography? The journal wants DOIs for every reference. When importing references from Google Scholar into my library, it didn’t load the DOI for any article/book. Should you need further assistance, please contact your librarians for help.

Then click the downloaded file to import the select references into EndNote. Save the citation file with the select references.If no correct match can be found, leave the item with no matches selected. Note: If you don’t find a good match, you can edit the citation text and search again. Check each result of the retrieved matching references, select the correct match for each item, then press DOWNLOAD ALL SELECT CITATIONS at the bottom of the screen.

Under Enter citations, paste the references you copied from the Word document or a PDF file.

Go to the Citation Finder website at or the new site.

Copy the references listed in the bibliography in Word or PDF.

However, by using an external tool called Citation Finder, users can transfer most of the references (if not all) on the list into EndNote. As far as I know, EndNote program does not have a feature to import a list of references in a Word document or a PDF file into EndNote, as the content is in plain text.

Endnote website reference