Convert a document's works cited to bibtex or endnote formats

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I have a text document (word or pdf) which has a long list of works cited. How can the works cited be export to bibtex or endnote?

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Charles Stewart picture Charles Stewart · Dec 2, 2009

You are spoilt for choice. Google for "reference metadata extraction" and start clicking.

There's free software to extract from PDFs: see Metadata Extraction Tool.

If you have a Word 2007 file, that has (at last) a standardised representation of reflist entries, and EndNote can extract reliably from it.

If you just want to see the citations in an article, RefRuns is a useful tool, and has a simple web interface.

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