Import from Citation

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If you are a Citation user and want to try Biblioscape, you can easily transfer your bibliographic records from a Citation database into a Biblioscape database. Follow the steps below to make the transfer.

 

1.A Citation database file is a text file with tags for each data field. It can therefore be imported directly into the Biblioscape database with the Biblioscape "Citation" import filter. The following is an example of a 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.In Biblioscape, select the references folder where you want to import the records, and go to "File | Import...".
3.Click the "Browse" button to select the Citation database file.
4.On the "Tagged Plain Text" tab, select "Citation" as "Import filter".
5.Click the "Start" button to import.