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 "id": "ris-citation",
 "name": "RIS Citation",
 "category": "text",
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   "application/x-research-info-systems"
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  "puid": [
   "fmt/1899"
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   "Q923990"
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      "pattern": "545920"
     },
     {
      "position": "eof",
      "offset": 0,
      "max_offset": 32,
      "pattern": "455220202d"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "The RIS file format is a standardised tag format created by Research Information Systems, Incorporated to facilitate the exchange of data between citation programs. This file format is widely supported by numerous reference managers, digital libraries and online library catalogs. The RIS format is also used by citation management applications for the import and export of citations. There exist two major versions of the RIS format, and the format has a file size limit of 1MB.",
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   "name": "Pandoc",
   "url": "https://pandoc.org",
   "license": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Aigaion",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4696814",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "GNU General Public License, version 2.0",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "CiteMe",
   "url": "https://citeme.app",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  },
  {
   "name": "JabRef",
   "url": "https://www.jabref.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "MIT License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "MAXQDA",
   "url": "http://www.maxqda.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  },
  {
   "name": "Q226915",
   "url": "https://zotero.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Tellico",
   "url": "https://tellico-project.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
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   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/RefMan",
   "kind": "wiki"
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  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1899",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/1899",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q923990",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q923990",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
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   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "opendocument",
   "tool": "Pandoc",
   "command": "pandoc -f ris -t odt in.ris -o out.odt",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.",
   "url": "https://pandoc.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "office-open-xml-wordprocessing-document-ecma-376-1st-edition",
   "tool": "Pandoc",
   "command": "pandoc -f ris -t docx in.ris -o out.docx",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.",
   "url": "https://pandoc.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "hypertext-markup-language",
   "tool": "Pandoc",
   "command": "pandoc -f ris -t html in.ris -o out.html",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.",
   "url": "https://pandoc.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "markdown",
   "tool": "Pandoc",
   "command": "pandoc -f ris -t markdown in.ris -o out.md",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.",
   "url": "https://pandoc.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "epub-format",
   "tool": "Pandoc",
   "command": "pandoc -f ris -t epub in.ris -o out.epub",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Document structure is kept; layout, styles and unsupported elements are lost.",
   "url": "https://pandoc.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "plain-text-file",
   "tool": "Pandoc",
   "command": "pandoc -f ris -t plain in.ris -o out.txt",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Text only: all formatting is dropped.",
   "url": "https://pandoc.org"
  }
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 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}