RefMan

RefMan or Reference Manager, is bibliographic software originally founded by Research Information Systems, then combined with EndNote and ProCite to form ISI ResearchSoft in 1999. A standardized tagging format was developed by Research Information Systems for use in references.

Format Information
The RIS format is a plain text line based tagging format. Format begins with the tag " " and ends with tag " " Format also has a 1MB file size limit.

Sample
An example of the RIS tagging structure. TY - JOUR AU - Shannon, Claude E. PY  - 1948 DA - July TI - A Mathematical Theory of Communication T2 - Bell System Technical Journal SP - 379 EP - 423 VL - 27 ER -

Sample Files

 * Sample RIS citation download