Convert a document's works cited to bibtex or endnote formats [closed]

Question

I have a text document (word or pdf) which has a long list of works cited. How can the works cited be export to bibtex or endnote?

Answer 1

You are spoilt for choice. Google for "reference metadata extraction" and start clicking.

There's free software to extract from PDFs: see Metadata Extraction Tool.

If you have a Word 2007 file, that has (at last) a standardised representation of reflist entries, and EndNote can extract reliably from it.

If you just want to see the citations in an article, RefRuns is a useful tool, and has a simple web interface.

Answer 2

After downloading the Metadata Extraction Tool, I discovered it captures the metadata a of particular object (file name, size, date, etc.); it does not look at the references inside that object and extract them.

The best solution I've found for scraping references from Word and Pdf files is cb2Bib.