RIS Citations (.ris)
The same three references as an RIS citation file with two-letter tags and ER record terminators — the twin of the BibTeX file, for testing RIS import and BibTeX/RIS conversion.
TY - JOUR
AU - Lovelace, Ada
TI - Notes on the Analytical Engine
JO - Taylor's Scientific Memoirs
PY - 1843
VL - 3
SP - 666
EP - 731
ER -
TY - BOOK
AU - Knuth, Donald E.
TI - The Art of Computer Programming
PB - Addison-Wesley
PY - 1997
SN - 978-0201896831
ER -
TY - CONF
AU - Shannon, Claude E.
TI - A Mathematical Theory of Communication
T2 - The Bell System Technical Journal
PY - 1948
VL - 27
SP - 379
EP - 423
ER -
Specifications
- Format
- RIS
- Records
- 3
- Tags
- TY, AU, TI, PY, ER
What is a .ris file?
RIS is a plain-text citation format using two-letter tags (TY for type, AU for author, TI for title, PY for year) with each record ending in an ER tag. It is widely supported by reference managers and publisher databases for importing and exchanging citations.
How to use this file
Use an example .ris file to test RIS parsers and reference-manager import, or as input for citation-format conversion between RIS, BibTeX, and CSL-JSON.
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