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:

*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.

Journal References

eXtyles Reference Processing can restructure most journal references that have no significant author errors with near-perfect accuracy. References that are not restructured are visually identified for manual editing.

After reference processing, a typical journal reference looks like this:

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Book and Conference Proceedings

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

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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:

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.

Preprints and Data Citations