.TH EndNote2bib 1 "Date: 2006/05/17 01:00:00" "EndNote2bib"
.SH NAME
EndNote2bib \- convert EndNote input files to bibtex .bib files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B EndNote2bib
[\fP-q\fR] file ...

.B EndNote2bib
[\fP-h\fR]
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.SH OPTIONS
\fP-q\fR supress complains on unsupported EndNote tags on stderr

\fP-h\fR print a usage summary and exit
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B EndNote2bib
reads the
.I files
and produces a
.B bibtex
reference list (a .bib file) on the standard output.
If no files are given, EndNote2bib reads
standard input.
.PP
Since
.B EndNote
files are inherently unstructured (compared to
.B bibtex )
.B EndNote2bib
only does a passable job.  In particular
.B EndNote
doesn't require a keyword, while
.B bibtex
does.  The heuristic that
.B EndNote2bib
uses for cooking up a keyword, in order of precedence, is:
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1. Use the Label (%F) if it's only one word.
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2. Use the Call Number (%L) if it's only one word.
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3. Use the Keyword entry (%K) if it's only one word.
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4. Otherwise just use the string "keyN" where N
is the count of this bibliographic entry in
the EndNote file(s).
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There is no check that the BibTeX labels generated that
way are all different.
.PP
To determine the type of reference that the
.B EndNote
entry is,
.B EndNote2bib
has to do some ``calculated guessing''.  The heuristic used
here (again, in order of precedence) is:
.PP
1. If it has one of the following Referenc Types (%0), it is
  interpreted according to the table
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  Book                      @book
  Manuscript                @manual
  In Proceedings            @inproceedings
  Conference Proceedings    @proceedings
  Report                    @techreport
  Journal Article           @article
  Book Section              @inbook
  Edited Book               @book
  Newspaper Article         @article
  Thesis                    @phdthesis
  Personal Communication    @unpublished
  Generic                   @misc
.in -4
.PP
2. If it has a journal entry (%J) then it's considered to
be an @article.
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3. If it has a Secondary Title entry (%B) then it's considered to
be an @inbook.
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4. If it has a report entry (%R) then it's considered to
be a @techreport.
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5. If it has a issuer entry (%I) then it's considered to
be a @book.
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6. Otherwise it's considered to be a @misc.
.PP
Quite often
.B EndNote2bib
will misguess and you will need to edit (by hand) the resulting .bib
file.
.PP
Any fields that
.B EndNote2bib
doesn't know about it will ignore (and complain about it on stderr unless
the -q option has been used).
.SH EXAMPLES
.B EndNote2bib
-q endnfile1 endnfile2 > bibtfile.bib

.B dosToTex 
< endnfile1 | 
.B EndNote2bib 
-q | fold -s -w 132 > bibtfile.bib

.SH SEE ALSO
dos2unix(1) dosToTex(1) fold(1) bibtex(1)
.SH AUTHOR
Richard J. Mathar, Leiden Observatory, based on r2bib.c coded by Rusty Wright
.SH BUGS