Often one keeps such references in a database, and a particular flexible one is BibTeX. However, the referencing information comes from different sources. One of the most often used is the commencial Web-of-Science. WoStransform transforms entries from the Web-of-Science into BibTeX entries.
WoStransform reads one or more input files which are in the format of Web-of-Science database output. It converts each entry in the input file(s) into a corresponding entry which is preformatted to be used in a BibTeX database. All entries from the input file(s) are collected and written into a single output file.
The following assumptions are made:
(1) The Web-of-Science entry is of the types `Journal' or `Book in Series'. If an unknown entry type in an input file is encountered, a message is written and the entry is ignored.
(2) The output BibTeX database entry contains a key constructed from the last names of authors and the publication year in the following way: up to two author's last names are concatenated by a slash (`/'). If the entry has more than two authors, the string `/etal' ist appended. This `author part' of the key is augmented by an underline (`_') and the year of publication. This may lead to duplicate keys if more than one entry of the same author (or the same first two authors for multi-author publications) in the same year are present. In such a case, the keys hve to be disambiguated by human intervention, e.g. by appending a distinguishing character.
(3) Some (empty) non-standard additional fields in the BibTeX entry are added: projects, topics, coworkers and copy. The values of these entries can, of course, not be generated by the program. Such information must be provided later by the user.
This process in general does not work without some human intervention (see Usage).
The documentation of WoStransform can be generated on your computer locally or accessed here.
Please contact the author of the program at berndspeiser@users.sourceforge.net if you have specific questions about the software.
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