Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: EndNote and Reference Update ? Keywords: EndNote,Reference Update Message-ID: <1990Mar26.183742.18555@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 26 Mar 90 18:37:42 GMT References: <1373@ac.dal.ca> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 32 In article <1373@ac.dal.ca> ireland@ac.dal.ca writes: > Does anybody out there have experience getting Reference Update files into > EndNote? I'm considering writing a little program to do this (probably in > HyperCard). Will EndLink do the job? Any suggestions would be appreciated. If Reference Update uses the "standard" Medline database format, I might have something that can help you. It's not exactly what you want, but not too far off. I wrote a program in C to run under Unix (called brs2bib) which takes typescripts of BRS sessions (which are in Medline format) and converts them to bib format, which EndNote can then import. It's pretty smart about skipping stuff it doesn't understand and makes a reasonable guess as to which of several common variations on the standard format it's looking at. You can feed it a raw typescript and it will skip past the login/query stuff at the top and just parse the search results output). Anyway, if you want it, you can ftp pub/misc/brs2bib.shar from goober.phri.nyu.edu. It's public domain, so have fun and do with it what you will. It's really sort of a hack that grew, so sometimes it does, well, interesting things. You would be crazy to use the output of brs2bib without first looking at it to make sure it didn't do anything completely nutso. Fortunately, it tends to not make small mistakes; either it works, or it's obvious that something went wrong. The most common screwup is to mistake an author's first name spelled out for a bunch of initials, which it then proceedes to separate with periods, i.e. "ROGER RABBIT" should be turned into "%A R. Rabbit" but sometimes becomes "%A R. O. G. E. R. Rabbit". -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma"