As the administrator on my Project, I’m asked to create a single Word doc or PDF of all our works, as in a bibliography. I was only able to select them and cite them, then paste manually into Word. Then, to number them, I had to reformat by manually deleting the space and pressing enter between each citation. EndNote allows you to “Import selected citations” (an entire folder or Library) into Word and they can be reformatted to any citation style in Word. The Word plugin for Paperpile only allows you to search your library and select the citation, the way you do when writing text, referencing one paper at a time.
This feature is the reason I will probably not be subscribing to Paperpile, although I LOVE the look and ease of the library.
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select multiple papers
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click on the cite button
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click on citation
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go to MS Word
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click paste
Bellah, A., & Bellah, L. (n.d.). Informed consent contract. Psychiatricassociatesofmckinney.com. Retrieved March 16, 2026, from https://psychiatricassociatesofmckinney.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/New-Informed-Consent-Contract-Dr.-A.-Bellah-4-24-19.pdf
Gabay, M. (2018). RxLegal: Pharmacist gag clauses. Hospital Pharmacy, 53(6), 376–377. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018578718802833
Picinic, N. J. (1997). Physicians, bound and gagged: federal attempts to combat managed care’s use of gag clauses. Seton Hall Legislative Journal, 21(2), 567–620. https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1691&context=shlj
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Welcome to our forum, @Nicole_Avila, and thank you for your kind words about Paperpile.
And thanks for letting us know what you did. We understand that being able to create a bibliography without in-text citations is essential for your use case, and we hear you that your current workflow in the Word plugin is a pain point.
In the meantime, Bruce offered a workaround for creating your bibliography. You can select all the references in a folder by clicking the Select all box in the toolbar:
When copying citations from a folder in your library, after clicking Cite > Citation, you can open a citation preview dialog (click View) and change the citation style to a numerical one like Vancouver by clicking Citation style in the bottom left corner:
See
Set citation style | Paperpile Help Center
On the product side, our team is actively working on a new version of the Word plugin that will include the ability to add references to the bibliography without needing individual in-text citations. I can keep you updated on the team’s progress.
