bibconvert

ShaRef Bibliography Conversion Service Alternatives

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Seriously, our goal is to provide a very high quality bibliography conversion service. If you are not satisfied with the results of the conversion, please let us know, why!

On this page, a number of other conversion services and tools are listed for your convenience, you might want give these a try, too. In the following table, the services and tools are listed line by line, and for each format (i.e., each column) it is stated whether they are able to import and/or export this kind of data. The following formats are listed in the table:

BibTeX, the format of the BibTeX program that is part of the TeX/LaTeX formatting environment.
EndNote, a Windows/Mac application that is among the most popular bibliography management programs.
FrameMaker, a word processing program that also provides some bibliography management features.
HTML, no bibliography management features, but excellent for publishing bibliographies on the Web.
MODS, a highly powerful and complex format which is a subset of the MARC library catalog format.
REFER, a very old line-oriented format that can be read and exported by many programs.
Reference Manager, a network-based program from the same company that sells EndNote.

	BibTeX	EndNote	FrameMaker	HTML	MODS	REFER	Reference Manager	Remarks/ Additional Features
bibconvert	✓/✓	✓/✓ (XML)		-/✓				Custom XML format (ShaRef XML) used as conversion hub, also supports Silva XML export
bibutils	✓/✓				✓/✓	✓/✓	✓/✓ (RIS)	MODS used as conversion hub, also supports COPAC format references, ISI web of science, and Pubmed
EndNote		✓/✓		-/✓		✓/✓	✓/- (RIS)	Provides access to online catalogs through Z39.50, allowing the import of bibliographic records from online catalogs.
InterBib	✓/✓		-/✓ (MIF)	-/✓		✓/✓		Converts and merges multiple bibliographies in one step
Open Citation Converters	✓/✓					✓/✓		Custom XML format (BiblioML) used as conversion hub

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