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is it possible to export bookends hits in RIS format? I am not finding that option.

thanks

If you're smart enough to enter smart apostrophes, Bookends will spit them back, too.

touché. I guess I am not smart enough-- how do you do this? I press the quotation key and dumb quotes go in.

- I have several titles in my bibliography that have decades in them, e.g. 1960s or 1970s. When I scan my document, the titles turn to "1960S" and "1970S." They have lower case "s"s in the reference window. A minor annoyance, but is there any way to fix it? - This is al...

I just imported a ton of references, half of which were in all upper case, from the citation index "America: History and Life" (an RIS-format export). I am using Mac OS 10.28 and Bookends 9.0.3. I selected the upper case references, and went to Global Change<Case Change and selected "...

yup, it might sound sort of cheesy but it's fairly common practice among historians, lit scholars, and others who study primary texts to draw a quote from their research as a title. It's usually in article titles, so you have the added awkwardness of quotes within quotes. that is an actual example, ...

There is a little bug in the automatic formatting of citations: I LOVE that Bookends automatically capitalizes titles as it goes from the reference to the citation. However, there is a convention in many humanities texts of having a catchy quote as part of a title, and the first letter after the quo...

wait, I enthused too soon.. there is one kind of citation I can't get to import quite right in the RIS format. There are book chapters in this database, e.g. TY - CHAP A1 - Cikovsky, Nicolai. T1 - Democratic illusionism T2 - America : the new world in 19th-century painting PB - Munich, London, New Y...

jon, that worked! thanks for the speedy reply.
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I am using a database that doesn not have a filter in Bookends (Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)-- by RLG Eureka). They have an "export to database manager" option, in which they give 4 choices of format: ReferenceWorks, Endnote, Procite, and Reference Manager. I exported using the...

figured I'd keep in this thread as I am obviously troubleshooting my first big document... another problem I am having is that there are 3 references in my database that consistently come up as ambiguous. The weird thing is that the window that pops up asking me to choose among the possibilities lis...

I am sure this is something simple that I am overlooking, but.. I am creating a custom ("unused") format for a particular set of newsletters.. and everything is turning out perfectly except that the date comes out with only the year I entered, not the month. I am also having trouble with t...