Bib To Refer Help

Name:	Bib To Refer
Version:	1.4
Last update:	2019-08-08 08:44:53

This package is primarily a feature for Bib mode. Click here to display the Bib Mode Features Preferences
It implements the conversion of BibTeX to Refer (Endnote compatible), by adding a BibTeX Menu ↣ BibTeX Conversions ↣ Bib To Refer menu item. If the active window is in Bib mode, then all of the entries in the current selection (or, if there is no selection, all entries in the window) will be converted and inserted into a new window. You can then save this window on your local disk, and use EndNote's File ↣ Import command to add them to a .enf file.
For example, this:

@article{Lamont1987,
   author  = {Mich\`{e}le Lamont},
   title   = {How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of
		  Jacques Derrida},
   journal = {American Journal of Sociology},
   volume  = 93,
   number  = 3,
   pages   = {584-622},
   year    = 1987,
   key     = {culture, derrida, france},
}

will be converted to

%0 JOURNAL ARTICLE
%F Lamont1987
%A Michèle Lamont
%T How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of Jacques Derrida
%J American Journal of Sociology
%V 93
%N 3
%P 584-622
%D 1987
%K culture; derrida; france

Because BibTeX and EndNote database entries do not have a one-to-one correspondance, the conversion results here will need to be carefully inspected and adjusted after importing them into a different helper. As is the case with any BibTeX to Refer conversion, this procedure is only an approximation, and comes with no guarantees.
Some notes about the conversion:

All @string strings will be converted in the conversion, assuming that the strings are defined in the file/window that uses them.
If there are several authors, each author has its own tag %A.

Protected authors, such as

author = {{U.S. Department Of Agriculture}},

will have a comma appended after their name, as in

%A U.S. Department Of Agriculture,

All LaTeX Accents will be converted to diacritical characters, assuming the the package Latex Accents is installed. This takes place automatically, there's nothing more that you need to do.
Selecting BibTeX Menu ↣ Formatting ↣ Format All Entries before performing the conversion will often make the results more accurate.
The following BibTeX fields are not standard, and ignored when you BibTeX a file, but if they are present they will be added to the indicated Refer fields:

abstract        -> %X (abstract)
annote          -> %G (note)
isbn            -> %@ (isbn)
issn            -> %@ (issn)
key             -> %K (descriptor)
keywords        -> %K (keywords)

Each entry's citekey will be added as %F (label). All other fields will be given some %1 %2 ... Custom Field designation.
Another BibTeX To Refer conversion option involves the refer.bst LaTeX package. For more information, perform a search for this file at http://www.ctan.org and read its documentation.

Known problems

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