[Refdb-users] RefMan/RIS questions

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

For anyone with access to a copy of Reference Manager, I've got two
questions:

1) I've seen conflicting information on whether there is an RIS tag for
"type."  This is not reference type, but rather lower-level.  Example:
you might have an "email" type in a PCOMM record.  So, does RefMan in
fact have a field for this kind of thing, and what does it do with these
data when exported?

2) How does RefMan actually format citations?  In Endnote, for example,
one inserts a temporary citation with syntax like: [see also \Jones, 1998
#52@23]. (Note: the default citation delimters are actually
curly-brackets, but I don't know how to access them on this keyboard). In
this example, the backslash delimits where the actual citation begins,
the temporary citation itself is author, year, and record number,
followed by the @ symbol which indicates the following is the page
number(s) that ought to be added to the citation.

There is then a formatting stage in which Endnote scans for these
temporary citations, and replaces them with their formatted counterparts.
 This is thus analogous (sort of) to what refdb does.

So, does RefMan have something equivalent, and if so, what is the
temporary record syntax?

Bruce


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