RIS to APSA Citation Converter

What is RIS?

RIS is a plain-text reference format created by Research Information Systems and still used as the standard export format by EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Web of Science, Scopus, and most library databases. Each record is a block of two-letter tags: TY marks the reference type, AU lines carry one author each, TI holds the title, PY the year, SP and EP the page range, and ER closes the record. Because every field is tagged, an RIS record converts cleanly – CiteTools maps each tag onto its citation data model and renders the reference in the style you choose. This page is the fast path when a database hands you an .ris file but your bibliography needs formatted text: open the file in any text editor, copy a record, and paste it here.

How the RIS to APSA conversion works

1. Open your exported .ris file in a text editor and copy one or more records.
2. Paste them into the input field; CiteTools reads the tagged fields directly.
3. Copy each formatted citation, or convert the whole batch at once.

Example input:

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Harris, Charles R.
AU  - Millman, K. Jarrod
TI  - Array programming with NumPy
JO  - Nature
VL  - 585
SP  - 357
EP  - 362
PY  - 2020
DO  - 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2
ER  - 

About APSA Style

American Political Science Association - used in political science and international relations.

APSA style, from the APSA Style Manual for Political Science, 2018 edition, is the author-date system of political science. The first author is inverted and the others keep normal order, all with full first names. The year follows the authors, article titles sit in quotation marks, and a DOI follows the pages. The in-text citation is the surname and the year, with a comma before a page.

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