Multiple journal listings in bibliograhpy reference

bluloo · Post by **bluloo** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:19 pm

Hi,

I never noticed this before so I assume it's new (though it may not be).

When I look at my formatted references, the journal name is repeated at least twice, sometimes three times in the reference. I am using APA 5th Ed but others have the dual journal entry as well.

If I open the reference entry window, I see the double journal entry.

Here are a few examples:

Stordy, J. (2002). Fatty acids for learning problems. GP: General Practitioner GP: General Practitioner, 65.

Reading, R. (2005). The oxford-durham study: A randomized, controlled trial of dietary supplementation with fatty acids in children with developmental co-ordination disorder. Child: Care, Health & Development Child: Care, Health & Development Child: Care, Health & Development, 31(5)(5), 629-630.

Nijhout, H. F., Reed, M. C., Budu, P., & Ulrich, C. M. (2004). A mathematical model of the folate cycle: New insights into folate homeostasis. The Journal of biological chemistry J. Biol. Chem, 279(53)(53), 55008-55016.

After a brief experiment I have found that importing a citation in RIS format results in two journal listings. Using the Medlars format, does not.

For example, downloading each citation format (RIS & Medlars) from here: http://www.jbc.org/cgi/citmgr?gca=jbc;M608478200v1

duplicates the noted results.

I think I chose RIS because the export was common, and worked as expected (or so I thought) for the research databases I use.

Is this a bug in BE, the citation format or something else I might be doing?

At this point I have a few hundred citations to fix, which is doable, but I'd like to avoid it in the future.

EDIT: It looks like the RIS formatted txt files have multiple journal tag entries and BE is importing all of them instead of one.

For example one particular file contains J0, JF and J1 entries for the journal.

I see that the RIS import filter manager contains five tags for the journal name.

I suppose I need to somehow tell BE to import any one of these present and ignore others afterwards.

It appears that RIS formatted citations may contain any or multiples of the journal tags so it doesn't seem like disabling all but one is the way to go. Of course I may be wrong.

I am not sure how to proceed so any input is appreciated.

Thanks

Post by **Jon** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:11 am

Bookends is doing exactly what it should -- it's importing the information the filter looks for and the source provides.

The RIS contains both the short and the full journal name in the example you provided. If you only want one of them, edit the filter to ignore the other (you can of course create a new filter, based on RIS -- call it RIS JBC or something) specific for a given source.

BTW, I notice that the EndNote export, which Bookends also imports, only contains the short journal name.

Jon
Sonny Software

bluloo · Post by **bluloo** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:04 pm

Hi Jon,

Do you have a suggestion as to which tag to use as the default?

In other words, do you know which full journal tag is common to all RIS formatted citations?

thanks

Post by **Jon** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:14 pm

I've seen many of them used, but I think JA is pretty common. But since each source uses its own rules, you may have to adjust it on an ad hoc basis (which is why it is configurable in the first place).

As I mentioned before, EndNote export works in your example without any more configuration.

Jon
Sonny Software

bluloo · Post by **bluloo** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:01 pm

Thanks Jon.

I thought I had problems with the endnote export from that site. I'll try again.

Of my University's EBSCO export options, what I assume is RIS (the export option is labeled as 'direct export to endnote, procite or Reference manager') is the least problematic.
The "generic" format doesn't seem to work and the other format is RefWorks.

I was hoping to be able to use one format for multiple sites. RIS seems to be common.

I suppose in a perfect world...

thanks again

bluloo · Post by **bluloo** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:14 pm

Hi Jon,

Sorry to be a pest on the forum.

What import filter are you using for the endnote import from the JBC site.

All of my citations, regardless of where they are obtained, are downloaded without extensions.
Downloaded from the JBC site the appear as "citmgr". I add a .txt extension or .ris as appropriate.

EBSCO citations appear as "delivery", for example.

Anyhow...

The JBC site notes that the endnote citation should be a text file so I appended a.txt but the import failed using 'endnote 6 export (refer)' import filter.
On a whim I tried the xml endnote import filter on the .txt file (I didn't expect it to work) but it just crashed BE.

Looks like your suggestion for creating custom filters for RIS might be best.

Thanks again for your help and the great support

tom · Post by **tom** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:52 am

Hi,

I usually use the BibTex format for importing references from sites like JBC (and there are a lot of Journals that have the same exporting refs feature). This works best for me (e.g. when using Endnote style I can import but the authors are missing). The only thing you have to change in the BibTex import filter is to add the tag DOI (and defining a field as DOI in BE).

hope this helps
tom

bluloo · Post by **bluloo** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:29 pm

Thanks Tom,

I'll check that out.