Sonny Software

Like Blackwell Synergy and Oxford Journals, Cambridge Journals Online kindly offers citation export. The formats offered are cvs and RIS. I chose RIS and the export, and subsequent import to Bookends, seemed to go OK, but Authors are in ALLCAPS, Titles are all surrounded by <em> marks, and dates are in the format 2002/Jun/17.

I tried exporting the references to the Bookends Bibliography Window in APA format, and found that:
1. The date is correctly output as simply (2002), so no probelm there.
2. The titles all include <em> and </em>.
3. Authors' given names, such as Paul, are interpreted as a string of initials, e.g. P.A.U.L.

Of course, it isn't impossible to edit out the problems by hand. And I can use the Convert OS X Service to change cases. But is there any less manual alternative?

Sounds like it's a modified RIS format. You should contact the provider about some of these issues (like the HTML tags).

There is a normalize name function in Bookends that might help. And if the problem is the names are surname first but there are no commas, you can import to the hits, then do a find/replace putting ",_" in place of " " in the Authors field (if there are two given names, that won't work properly, of course).

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks, Jon. As you suggest, some of the problems were easily handled with find & replace on the hits. I'll contact the Cambridge people, too.