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Referencing and Bibliography Management Tools

RIS and BibTeX formats serve as critical interchange standards. Understanding these allows
researchers to appreciate the architecture of citation data. For instance, BibTeX's role in
LaTeX typesetting systems exemplifies the importance of flexible, code-based citation
workflows in disciplines like physics and computer science.

3.1 What is RIS?

Developed by Research Information Systems Inc., the RIS format is a plain-text, tag-based
format designed to represent bibliographic citations. It is widely supported across databases
(e.g., PubMed, Scopus, JSTOR) and tools like EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero, and Mendeley.

3.2 Structure and Syntax

 RIS files consist of key-value pairs formatted in a specific way:
 RIS and BibTeX formats serve as critical interchange standards. Understanding
these allows researchers to appreciate the architecture of citation data. For
instance, BibTeX's role in LaTeX typesetting systems exemplifies the importance
of flexible, code-based citation workflows in disciplines like physics and
computer science.

TY - JOUR

AU - Smith, John

TI - Climate change in urban studies

JO - Environmental Research

PY - 2022

VL - 18

IS - 4

SP - 55

EP - 70

DO - 10.1234/envres.2022.004

ER -

Each line begins with a two-letter tag followed by a hyphen and a space. Notable
tags include:

TY – Type of reference (e.g., JOUR, BOOK, THES)