If you are a Citation user and want to give Biblioscape a try for its advanced features, you can transfer your bibliographic records from a Citation database to a Biblioscape database easily. The following are some simple steps you can follow. Click here to view a more detailed instruction with graphics at the Biblioscape Web site.
1. The Citation database
file is basically a text file with tags for each data field. Therefore it can be imported directly into
a Biblioscape database with the Citation import filter. The following is an example of Citation database
file:
>Article in a Journal (extended form)
>AU Myers, Bethany R.
>YR 1996
>AT Public problems: a thing of the present
>TR Williams, Jane
>PG 221-229
>JR Citizen Forum
>VO 8
>KW article in a journal, each issue begins on page 1
>AP Myers 1922
>RF Periodical, article in journal
>C2 Public problems
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>Article in a Popular Periodical
>YR 1981
>AT Telling time
>DE editorial
>PG 6, 7, 8
>JR Newsweek
>DM 8 March
>KW article in a periodical, unsigned; unsigned, article in a periodical; editorial
>AP Telling time
>RF Periodical, unsigned article in a magazine
>C2 asdfjk
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2. Start Biblioscape and go to "File | Import...". Click "Browse" button to select the Citation database file. On the "Tagged" tab, select "Citation" as "Import filter". Click "Start" button to import. If you don't have "Citation" import filter, click here to download it.