How to import references: Difference between revisions

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Import the references per type: Book, Book section, Edited book, Journal article, Report, Other.

Export the references from Endnote: File=>export. Choose as output style: tab delimited and as type: rtf format
Read the rtf file in wordpad and save it as a text file. These steps preserve the non-ANSI codes.
Open the file in Textpad and make sure that all data of a reference record are on the same line
- In Textpad you can remove newlines where the next line does not start with a number as follows:
- Find with regular expression is checked: \n\([^0123456789]\) and replace with: , \1
- Check the result and save
Read the textfile into excel with the import text function
Remove the column with the reference numbers
Insert an empty column at the left ( first column)
Insert an empty row at the top and fill in as header:
- first column: Label
- Author column: Author
- Year column: Year
Use the parseReference macro to generate the labels
Labels must be unique, so check labels that are ambiguous
Rename the header of the first column Label to Title
Per type the headers must be assigned the correct values see the section Headers per type.
Make sure empty columns are removed
Save the file as comma separated csv file. Check the ',' separator. If columns are separated by a ';' then change the list separator in the additional settings of the 'Region and language' dialog of the control panel.
In Special pages choose: Import CSV, Browse to the created csv file and start the import.

For each PublicationType you can also add a header 'Free text' with additional information.

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 #* Check the result and save
 # Read the textfile into excel with the import text function
+# Remove the column with the reference numbers
 # Insert an empty column at the left ( first column)
 # Insert an empty row at the top and fill in as header:
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 # Rename the header of the first column Label to Title
 # Per type the headers must be assigned the correct values see the section Headers per type.
+# Make sure empty columns are removed
 # Save the file as comma separated csv file. Check the ',' separator. If columns are separated by a ';' then change the list separator in the additional settings of the 'Region and language' dialog  of the control panel.
 # In Special pages choose: Import CSV, Browse to the created csv file and start the import.
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 * ReferenceTemplate[Pages3]
 * ReferenceTemplate[Date]
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