text to bibliography?

[grammatim]

Yes. It is an ECMA standard (and now even an ISO standard). The
specification is open and freely available.

ECMA:http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
Microsoft:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905545.aspx
ISO: they are still finalizing the text



Yes. Probably the best example out there to get you started on
creating your own bibliographic style ishttp://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2007/12/14/biblio...
but there are others.



Yes. For examplehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb258052.aspx

To come back to your original question: "text to bibliography?" Yes it
is possible to automate that process but highly complex and therefore
99% of the people out there will not be able to do it and the
practical answer is: No.

Funny definition of "automate" ...

Thanks for the links. I'll look at them to see how daunting they are.

 

[grammatim]

Yes. Probably the best example out there to get you started on
creating your own bibliographic style ishttp://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2007/12/14/biblio...
but there are others.

(1) I don't see any way to get to any other "blogs" that might have
been posted. I see that many people asked questions, and none were
answered.

(2a) One of the comments notes that it can't handle (2007a, 2007b),
and (2b) another notes that it can't handle "Smith (1997) states
that ..." vs. "It has been claimed (Smith 1997) that ..."

Both of those factors (2a) and (2b) mean that the entire tool is
utterly useless.

 

[p0]

(2a) One of the comments notes that it can't handle (2007a, 2007b),
and (2b) another notes that it can't handle "Smith (1997) states
that ..." vs. "It has been claimed (Smith 1997) that ..."

(2a) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100674921033.aspx

"If you choose a GOST or ISO 690 style for your sources and a citation
is not unique, append an alphabetic character to the year. For
example, a citation would appear as [Pasteur, 1848a]."

(2b) Right click on the citation, select "Edit citation" and then
select the "Author" in the "Suppress" frame.

Yves