How to Cite Patents – Databases including patents and Bibliographic Citation Software – Draft

Note: This is the first draft. I would appreciate suggestions. The contributors listed below have been a great start for the important task of identifying how to best cite patent resources.

Note: This is the first draft. I would appreciate suggestions. The contributors listed below have been a great start for the important task of identifying how to best cite patent resources.

DATABASES THAT INCLUDE PATENTS THAT CAN EXPORT RECORDS TO BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

BIOSIS has export options for EndNote and Refworks – You can import references from the Official Gazette

Derwent Innovations Index (ISI Web of Knowledge’s patent product) has export options for EndNote and Refworks, as well as tab-delimited text files.

Engineering Village, Elsevier offers US and EPO patent searching, which can be downloaded
to:
• RIS, EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager
• BibTex format
• RefWorks direct import
• Plain text format (ASCII)

ProQuest Materials Research database can export bib information from patents. Here is a link to Jan Comfort’s LibGuide that gives instructions: http://clemson.libguides.com/advanced_patent_searching. Under the tab “Downloading Patents” is a series of PowerPoint slides with screenshots.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Michael White at Queens University has provided a detailed Comparison of Reference Managers and Supported Patent Databases and File Formats that compares Mendeley, Refworks, Wizfolio and Zotero.

EndNote, now with a free web-based service, has support for patents.

Thank you to the following Contributors for their suggestions!
Jan Comfort
Donna Hopkins
Mike White
Andrew Wohrley
David Zwicky