Index PSUthesi Dialog: Bibliography Importer Close Window

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Purpose
If you have selected that you are using anything but EndNote for your bibliography setting, the Bibliography Importer is used to import existing references into the PsuThesi bibliography. In other words, you can place a group of entrys in the bibliography and then assign identifiers to them so they can be referenced.

 

Method(s) to invoke

  • [Bibliography] > Bibliography Importer...

    See also

  • Bibliography Editor
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    Discussion

    • The basic methodology is that you place the cursor somewhere in your existing reference list (although it does not have to exist), and then insert (import) a list you have stored in some file. After the import is performed you are placed in the Bibliography Editor. If you have already used PsuThesi to add some entrys, you can use [A] to position the cursor within the existing bibliography. When the cursor is in the correct location, use [B] to import the external file. [image]

    Example

    For example, you might have two existing PsuThesi numbered bibliography entrys:

    1. Jones, Richard ...
    2. Smith, Margaret ...

    And you want two import three external references you have in a file:

    Adams, John ...
    Minsker, Thomas ...
    Minsker, Thomas ...

    You could then use [A] to position the cursor on the Smith entry and then use [B] to produce:

    1. Jones, Richard ...
    2. Adams, John ...
    3. Minsker, Thomas ...
    4. Minsker, Thomas ...
    5. Smith, Margaret ...

    When you are then placed in the Bibliography Editor, you can not only assign identifiers for the three new entrys you imported, but you can also reposition Adams if the entrys are supposed to be alphabetically ordered, thus producing:

    1. Adams, John ...
    2. Jones, Richard ...
    3. Minsker, Thomas ...
    4. Minsker, Thomas ...
    5. Smith, Margaret ...


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