Importing a bibliography

[Bob D]

I have a reference list saved to a word document. I recently upgraded to Word
2007. Can I import that file into the new source list? Or do I have to enter
them manually into bibliography?

Bob D

 

[Yves Dhondt]

There are free non-Microsoft converters which can create sources from
existing references but your references have to be in a 'standardized
format'. So are they in BibTeX, EndNote RIS, MARC, Mods, ...?

If they aren't in any standardized format, you will have to enter them
manually.

Yves

 

[grammatim]

Can there be more than one Master Source List? I don't particularly
need my History of Linguistics, Semitic Linguistics, and Writing
Systems bibliographies to all be mixed together and available at once,
and as I've been writing articles in the three areas, it's been
getting pretty big.

 

[Yves Dhondt]

Yes, there can be as many as you want.

You can use the "Browse" button under "Manage Sources" to load another
master list. The easiest way to create a new list, is to create a copy of
the current list to another file and then remove its content through the
"Manage Sources" dialog.

Note that when Word starts, it normally always load the same master list
(%AppData%\Microsoft\Bibliography\sources.xml).

Yves
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http://bibword.codeplex.com

Can there be more than one Master Source List? I don't particularly
need my History of Linguistics, Semitic Linguistics, and Writing
Systems bibliographies to all be mixed together and available at once,
and as I've been writing articles in the three areas, it's been
getting pretty big.

 

[Fernando Soares]

What would be the step-by-step procedure? I did not find an "import" button
or something like that. FYI I have Biblioscape which allows me to export in
EndNote RIS and other formats, however I can't figure how to import from Word
2001 Source Manager. Please, help. Thank you so much.

 

[Yves Dhondt]

Word does not have an import function for source entries. However, you can
select a different "master list" to use. The conversion program you used
should normally have given you a file with the extension xml. Assuming the
format of that file is valid, you can use it as follows in Word:

1)On the "References" tab click "Manage Sources"
2)In the source manager that pops up, click "Browse..."
3)Navigate to the xml file the converter gave you and click "Open".

All the references from the file should now be in the list on the left.

4)Use the "Copy ->" button to copy whatever sources you want to use in your
document.


Note that if you want to keep track of all your sources, working with
multiple master lists can become complex (or easy, depending on how you
organize yourself). One option is to, once you loaded your sources, use the
"Copy ->" button to copy all the sources to the document. Then you open the
old master list again, and you copy the items from your document back to
your master list using the "<- Copy" button.

Yves

 

[Fernando Soares]

The only .bib to .xml converter I found thus far is Bib2Word2007Xml. However
I don't seem to be able to make this little script work. Are you aware of
other similar programs that can conver .bib to .xml?

Thank you for your previous clear explanations. As soon as I get my .xml
file done I will try that.

Fernando

 

[Yves Dhondt]

There are a number of them. As far as I know they are all commandline.

One that comes to mind is bibutils
(http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/). It does require the
conversion to an intermediate format so there might be more loss of data.
You would have to run "bib2xml" followed by "xml2wordbib". But it probably
is the best one out there.

There is also
http://sdudah.googlepages.com/bibtex2word2007bibliographyconverter That's an
AWK script, so you would need to have AWK installed.

Regards,

Yves