eXtyles Bibliographic Reference Processing is very good at restructuring references that already have a decent structure. Your original references may not be in the editorial style that you want; they may not be consistent; they may not even be accurate; but if your references have enough recognizable pieces of information, then eXtyles may be able to do all the tedious restructuring for you.

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Reference Processing and Validation

The following table lists the reference types that eXtyles Reference Processing can currently tag and restructure:

Tag	Reference Type	Styled/Tagged	Restructured
<jrn>	Journal article	Yes	Yes
<bok>	Book	Yes*	Yes*
<edb>	Edited book or book chapter	Yes*	Yes*
<std>	Standard	Yes**	Yes***
<conf>	Conference proceeding	Yes****	No
<prpt>	Preprint	Yes	No
<eref>	Website or online article	No	No
<lgl>	Legal case or statute	No	No
<ths>	Thesis or dissertation	No	No
<other>	Working paper, patent, map, or other document	No	No
<unknown>	Unsupported or otherwise unknown reference type	No	No

*Tagging and restructuring book and book chapter references requires the additional Book Reference Processing module.

**Tagging standard references requires the additional Standard Reference Processing module.

***Only references to standards from publishers with known designation formats (e.g., ISO, IEC, EN, BSI, DIN) are reformatted. References to standards from other publishers (e.g., ASTM, IEEE) have their elements color coded (i.e., identified with character styles), but no reformatting is done to avoid introducing errors in designations

****Tagging conference proceeding references requires the additional Conference Reference Processing module.

Content in <unknown> references are not altered at all during reference processing.

Book and Conference Proceedings

If your organization includes book and conference proceedings in Bibliographic Reference Processing, a typical book reference looks like this:

Screenshot of a processed book reference that is tagged as such and has face markup indicating the different parts of the reference (author, title, etc.)

If you do not have the module for book processing, book references are partially processed.

eXtyles identifies the type of non-journal reference and highlights only the authors and year.

The following example shows how a typical book reference appears after Bibliographic References processing without the book processing module:

Screenshot of a partially identified reference. The reference is tagged as a book with face markup on the author names and year only

Reference numbers and authors in books, edited books, “other,” and electronic references are cleaned up according to your chosen publication style.

No other automatic reformatting is done to non-journal references unless your organization has purchased the book and conference processing feature. All additional editing of non-journal references must be done manually. See the Manual Editing and Reference Reprocessing section for more information.

Not automatically included in Reference Processing! This add-in module can be added to your organization’s configuration by request.

Non-journal references include books as well as references that cite conferences, working papers, unpublished theses, and other works.

Both the reference type tag (such as <bok>) as well as the lesser degree of color coding can easily be used to identify non-journal references.

Journal References

Book and Conference Proceedings

Preprints and Data Citations

Reference Types

Journal References

Book and Conference Proceedings

Preprints and Data Citations