In the Swedish library catalogue for university libraries, LIBRIS, there is a very useful tool for creating citations to books and other publications. With the aid of this function you won’t need to write down all your citations by hand, as you can simply cut and paste them into your text or import them to a reference management system like EndNoteWeb.
Creating citations in LIBRIS
Start by finding the publication you want to create a citation for. In this example we want to create a citation for the book Crimeware by Markus Jakobsson and Zulfikar Ramzan. When you’ve found the book in LIBRIS, click the link “Cite” in the grey bar below the title information.
Now we’ll get a page where we can choose between two different options: Save as file or cut and paste.
From the column on the right you can easily copy the citation in the format you want and paste it directly into your reference list. At this point there are only a few reference systems to choose from though.
In the box to the left you have the option of downloading the citation as a file to your computer. This file can then be imported to a reference management system.
You can choose to save the citations in the following formats:
- Plain text - A simple text format for the easy identification of a work
- Harvard - A common reference or citation format which presents sources in a standard manner
- Oxford - Another common reference or citation format which presents sources in a standard manner
- BibTex - A reference format used together with the typesetting system “LaTeX”
- RefWorks - A tagged bibliographic format for handling references
- RISÂ - A tagged bibliographic format for handling references in reference handling systems such as EndNote, ProCite and RefManager
- MARC-XMLÂ - The MARC record in the standard MARC-XML format
(Taken from the LIBRIS help pages)
Importing citations from LIBRIS to EndNoteWeb
Since all students at BTH have free access to EndNoteWeb we’ll take a closer look at this program.
To import the citation to EndNoteWeb choose “.RIS” in the box “Format” and click “Save as file”.
Now choose where on your computer you want to save the .RIS-file. When you’ve done this you can log on to EndNoteWeb and upload the citation. In EndNoteWeb, choose the tab “Collect” and then “Import References”. Find your saved .RIS-file and choose “RefMan RIS” in the box “Filter”. Click “Import” to add the citation to your list.
Zotero
If you’re using Mozilla Firefox you can download a free plugin called Zotero for your browser. Zotero is a reference management system which is fully compatible with LIBRIS. When you’ve found a certain book or received a list of hits you can easily import the information from LIBRIS to Zotero by clicking on the small icon which appears in the in the browser’s adress field. You can read more about Zotero on www.zotero.org.
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