I assume by this that you mean how to get from the manual input fields to a bibtex string?  If that is the case then using the "Download bibtex string for all x results " will give you the bibtex format for all of the references displayed.

Perhaps you could try the ris2bib tool on this site to convert from Reference Manager:

http://www.mackichan.com/index.html?bibdb/tools.html~mainFrame

I have not idea why you are getting that error in the joomla file, which version of joomla are you using?  Perhaps I could look into this when I have time.

Mark

Hi Marco,
I had the very same problem. We use Reference Manager 10, and I was not able to convert the files.
Some time ago, I also found the machichan-Site, but I did not manage to get it working.
In the end, I found a solution which worked quite well:
http://www.potse.nl/software/bibfrob/HOWTO/RM-to-BibTeX-HOWTO
I only had to try out several of these bibtex.os files from that page until I found one which worked with my version of the Reference Manager.
To the bibtex.os you can also add additional fields to export to bibtex.

The only point is, that my .bib-files are about 2,4MBs big. For that reason I have to split the Reference Manager database in three parts before exporting them.

But in that context, I've got another question:
I've different custom fields in my reference manager and can export them to bibtex by adding the neccessary strings manually to the output style. So far, so good.
But I'd also like to have one of these custom fields in my Joomla-Bibtex-output.
I installed Joomla on our Universities' intranet and I'd like to offer the pdf files  of our references to download for my students. The filenames contain our internal repository number (e.g. 08-0573.pdf).
So I'd like to have another column in my joomla-bibtex-output table in the frontend (e.g. pdfs or something like that)  that the students can see the actual filename of the references and download it from our docman-download section.
Is there any possibility to add columns manually?

Rossi

Initially, I also thought about that and I also tried it. But then, I've got another two problems:
- what I want to see then, is not the acrobat-icon, but the filename. I don't have all publications as pdfs on the server, as - especially some of the older publications - some publications we only have as paper copies (under similar repository numbers as the pdf filenames.
- maybe I'm making a mistake during the import of the bibtex-files, but the links to the pdf files point into the root directory of my joomla installation and I dont want to copy the pdfs into the root directory. Also, I don't want to type in the links to 1.700+ files  manually.


Hmmm. Maybe that's the way to go.  I'll try to play around with that a little and then I'll see.  Fortunately, the code is very well written and without lots of frills.

Rudolf

In the meantime, I did it the brute way.
In JabRef, I created a field called "pdf" for the file names and then I just replaced the term 'eprint' by 'pdf' via find and replace in each of your com_bibtex files. Also, I removed all hyperlinks previously found under 'eprint'.
Maybe I could have had that way easier, but it works and I get exactly what I want. It's really a great tool.

Thank you, Rudolf