Exporting Bibliography

[DBA]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Does anyone know if there is a way to export a bibliography created with Word 2008 that is not too complex? I know it is in the file 'sources.xml' but finding something to read and convert it is the issue.

 

[John McGhie]

Once you have copied the sources.xml file, you HAVE exported your citations.
No further action is necessary.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
Does anyone know if there is a way to export a bibliography created with Word
2008 that is not too complex? I know it is in the file 'sources.xml' but
finding something to read and convert it is the issue.

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Once you have copied the sources.xml file, you HAVE exported your citations.
No further action is necessary.

Though I'd have to agree that the .xml file is anything but easy to
play with. It's not human-readable per se.
It all depends on what the ultimate purpose is.

DBA, what do you want to do with the exported result?

Corentin

 

[DBA]

Thanks for your quick response!

I realized that having the sources.xml file constitutes a 'sort of' export but ultimately I would like to import the bibliography into Zotero so there is a need to reformat things. Hence my 'export' question actually refers to 'translate' I guess. If it was only a few references, I would just use copy/paste but there are too many references for that to be practical.

On 2010-05-04 16:32:56 -0400, John McGhie said:
>

> > Once you have copied the sources.xml file, you HAVE exported your citations.
> > No further action is necessary.

>
> Though I'd have to agree that the .xml file is anything but easy to
> play with. It's not human-readable per se.
> It all depends on what the ultimate purpose is.
>
> DBA, what do you want to do with the exported result?
>
> Corentin
>
>
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[John McGhie]

Both Word and Zotero use an XML file to store their citations.

However, it would appear that the current version of Zotero cannot read the
latest version of Word's sources.xml.

XML is designed to be converted, so I am guessing it won't be long before
Zotero can read it.

Cheers

Thanks for your quick response!

I realized that having the sources.xml file constitutes a 'sort of' export but
ultimately I would like to import the bibliography into Zotero so there is a
need to reformat things. Hence my 'export' question actually refers to
'translate' I guess. If it was only a few references, I would just use
copy/paste but there are too many references for that to be practical.

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matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto:[email protected]