Convert bibliographic references from a document into bibtex or endnote

Question

Hi,

I got a text document (word or pdf) which has at the end a lot of bibliographic references. Do you know about some approach/program that can export them to bibtex or endnote?

Thanks

Answer 1

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.