Import formatted references in a bibliography

In the past, Biblioscape could only import references in a tagged format. For example:

Title: Nature and causes of injuries on women resulting from an endurance training program

This works fine when you import references from a citation database or from another bibliographic software. For a lot researchers, their reference collection is saved in a word processor document and the references are not in a tagged format. Instead, their references are saved in a formatted style like APA, MLA, Chicago, or in a style required by a journal. It is possible that the references are copied and pasted from many sources, therefore there are many styles in a reference collection. This has been a tough problem to tackle for bibliographic software. Users had to enter their references manually by copy and paste.

Biblioscape has introduced a new feature to solve this tough problem. You can now import references in a formatted style. You can have references formatted in different styles like APA, MLA, and Chicago in a single file, and have different types of references like journal article, book, and conference paper in a single file. Biblioscape will use the Internet to look for your references and import them. If the full text of a reference is available on the Web, Biblioscape will include the link to the full text.

Open the file of your reference collection in a word processor. Make sure each reference is in a single line. There is no line break inside a reference.
Kowal, D. (1980). Nature and causes of injuries on women resulting from an endurance training program. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 8(4), 265-269.
Ainslie, George and Monterosso, John (2002). Hyperbolic discounting lets empathy be a motivated process. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 20-21.

2.	Save the file under another name as a plain text file. This is very important. Biblioscape can only import a file in plain text format.

3.	In Biblioscape, select the reference folder where you want to import the file. Go to "File \| Import...".

When importing a tagged file, all the data is included in the file. When importing formatted references, Biblioscape must look for the record on the Internet. It is possible that Biblioscape cannot find certain references, or the wrong references are imported. Due to the nature of this import, it is possible some records are not imported and some wrong records are imported. After the import you need to go through your imported records and compare them to the original ones in your file. This step could be time consuming. Because formatted references could not be imported in the past, this new feature still will save you a lot of time.