Manual Editing and Reference Reprocessing

Once a reference has been tagged with a type (e.g., <jrn>, <unknown>), it will not be reprocessed if you rerun Advanced Processing > Bibliographic References. eXtyles ignores tagged entries on successive passes of this function. If you wish to reprocess a reference after making some changes to it, you can remove the reference type tag. For example, the following reference failed to process correctly due to the double punctuation after the volume number:

<unknown>Janmey, P. A. “Protein regulation by phosphatidylinositol lipids.” Chemistry & Biology 2;:1 (1995): 61–65. </unknown>

You can fix the punctuation manually—that is, delete the extra colon after the volume number— and then remove the reference type tags (by backspacing over the tag, or by selecting the tag and cutting it with Control-X) so that the reference looks like this:

Janmey, P. A. “Protein regulation by phosphatidylinositol lipids.” Chemistry & Biology 2;1 (1995): 61–65.

After selecting the Bibliographic References menu item again, the reference will be properly restructured as shown here:

<jrn>Janmey, P. A. “Protein regulation by phosphatidylinositol lipids.” Chemistry & Biology 2, no. 1 (1995): 61–65.</jrn>

Hiding the reference type tags is not the same thing as deleting them. To reprocess a reference, you must actually delete the tags at the start and end of a reference. Hiding them with the View Tags/Hide Tags menu item will make the tag disappear on screen, but it will not cause a reference to be reprocessed.

Errors can be fixed even without removing the colored highlights and styles. Bibliographic References processing removes all highlighting before reprocessing a reference. Colored highlights and styles are reapplied before the results of the Bibligraphic References processing function are displayed on screen.