RIS (Research Information Systems citation file) Format

• RIS file format
• RIS file extension
• RefMan RIS format; ZIP; example A; example B
• Harzing: export formats
• Infobiblio: RIS tutorial
• ResearcherID help
• Fenner: Why BibTeX, RIS and Endnote XML will soon be broken
• Direct Export RIS, Thomson Reuters, 2008
• EasyBib import
• How to ?

A RIS file with publications descriptions is a text file. Its structure is described in Direct Export RIS. The fields for different types of publications are specified in EN RIS documentation.

Example:

TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doreian, Patrick
AU  - Batagelj, Vladimir
AU  - Ferligoj, Anuška
A2  - Granovetter, Mark
TI  - Generalized Blockmodeling
T2  - Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
M1  - 25
ET  - first edition
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
PY  - 2004/11//
SP  - 402
LA  - english
UR  - http://www.amazon.com/Generalized-Blockmodeling-Structural-Analysis-Sciences/dp/0521840856
UR  - http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/sociology/sociology-general-interest/generalized-blockmodeling
UR  - http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511584176
SN  - 978-0521840859
DO  - 10.1017/CBO9780511584176
ER  -

• Login Web of Science and in My Tools select ResearcherID.
• Login ResearcherID. In the list of publications in the right upper corner click on the button Add Publications.
• Select the Option 3: Upload RIS File

• Using the Browse button select the file to upload and click on the button Upload File.