Export Text

Export as text or RIS

To export data as a text file choose Data → Export → Export text or RIS … from the menu. A window as shown below will open. You have several options to adapt the format of the export. E.g. you may use a different style for the first author, specifiy the separator for the last author etc.

Text format

The first tab Export as text provides the plain text export. The colums that should be displayed can be specified in the list Displayed columns. A click on the Transfer to grid button to transfers the data into the data grid beneath the button. The sequence of the columns can be changed by dragging a column in the position of your choice. After setting the correct sequence and formatting options (e.g. Format of year - see below) click on the Transfer to text button. Then the text ready for export will be shown in the textbox below. Click on the Save to file button to store the data in the specified file.

If you select the option Generate tab separated  list and click on the Transfer to text button, the data as shown in the data grid will be inserted in a tabulator-separated text file and column titles will be inserted (see image below). Such a file could be edited with a spreadsheet application an re-imported using the Importwizard.

RIS format (Reference Manager)

The second tab RIS Export provides the export of data in the RIS format according to the commercial database ReferenceManager use the RIS-Export function.

Click on the Start export button to generate the RIS tagged format and on the Save button to store the result in the specified file.