revtools (version 0.2.2)

read_bibliography: Import bibliographic data

Description

Import standard formats from academic search engines and referencing software.

Usage

read_bibliography(x, path)

Arguments

x

Filename of a bibliographic file. Supported formats include .ris, .bib, medline (.nbib) or web of science (.ciw)

path

Path to specified file

Value

Returns an object of class bibliography, which is a list where each entry is a list containing data on each reference. This function auto-detects document formatting, meaning that specified file formats are ignored except to locate the file.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
file_location<-system.file("extdata", "avian_ecology_bibliography.ris", package="revtools")
x<-read_bibliography(file_location)
summary(x)
# }