Sonny Software

Hello,

I've had my colleagues run into the problem of trying to recover a final format of a paper, over and over again. A couple of examples:

a) you send someone a final version of a document and that person wants to use a different reference manager
b) you get back edits from a reviewer and somehow, those changes removed the reference manager's code

To the best of my knowledge, there is no program/reference manager/script that will go through a paper, find the references and revert back to citing tags (in { }s). All reference managers do when you unscan is purely trivial: use their *own* codes that they put there and replace them with the tags again.

What I am asking here is for a tool/feature that will grant the reference manager a big advantage in the market. Is it easy, no. Is it really worthwhile and time-saving, yes. And that, my friends, is the whole purpose of using programs and computers.

Please enlighten me if there's any tool out there that I've missed. It's ok if it has to be supervised.

Hi,

Are you asking for Bookends Unscan to revert citations put in by other references managers, such as EndNote, to the temporary citation form? Or a third party tool?

Jon
Sonny Software

It has to rely solely on the text, so that no matter what program was used to create it, it has be able to:

1) figure out which citations in the bibliography correspond to the ones in a given database of references (the user would provide this). The user would also provide one or more formats in which the references are formatted in the bibiography

2) If it can't find/properly match a reference, user can help or by default a new dummy reference entry can be created

3) go through the text and put back reference (in { }s) just as if we had used Bookends to put them there

This means that this feature/tool needs to be able to rely solely on a .txt/rtf file. The point is not the text format but the ability to simply use text instead. The point is not to be able to understand someone's else codes - just as Endnote - the point is really not have to rely on codes and recover any final document made by any reference manager.