RIS to ASA 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 ASA 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 ASA Style

American Sociological Association - used in sociology and related social sciences.

ASA style, from the ASA Style Guide, 7th edition, is the author-date system of sociology and many other social sciences. The first author is inverted and the others keep normal order, all with full first names. Article titles sit in quotation marks, the journal name is italic, and the year follows the authors. A DOI closes the reference as doi: and the number. The list runs in alphabetical order, and the in-text citation is the surname and the year, with a colon before a page.

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