Citation style language plugin problem

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using OJS 3.1.1.4
Theme: default manuscript child

When I download the citation using the block as in the picture. It downloads the “.RIS” file. But when I try to import this file in the EndNote, a pop up appears to choose an import filter. Which I did and every time I choose a different filter but the endnote does not import anything and it goes blank.
Anyone here can guide why it is happening and how to fix this.
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I have tried different browsers, computers and even different versions of Endnote (x7,x9) as well. but no luck!
Thanks and looking forward an expert suggestions

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Anyone there to share their experience?

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Hi @seisense,

I’ve searched the PKP forum and haven’t found any other mentions of this problem, so you may want to look at Endnote’s technical support resources for a solution.

Good luck,
Amanda Stevens
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Thanks @astevens for your reply.

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Hi @seisense and @astevens

I was having this problem too.

However, I think I found the solution.

The ris template only has one space in each of the tags, e.g.

TY - JOUR

Looking at the ris file format on wikipedia, a RIS tag is supposed to have “two letters, two spaces and a hyphen”. So something like

TY[space][space]- JOUR

I also looked at the ris files I got from other publishers and they also have 2 spaces in the tag.

I’ve changed the ris.tpl file in my installation and found that it is now exporting .ris files that work fine with Endnote.

I would also recommend changing line 20 of the ris.tpl from

AU - {$author->given} {$author->family}

to

AU - {$author->family}, {$author->given}

This will just ensure that Endnote gives people the correct family name because some people have more than one part to their family name.

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@shaun Thanks, finally a long standing issue is resolved.

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Hi @shaun and @seisense ,

This problem came up for me again and I was wondering if you filed an issue in Github and if it has been fixed in the plugin? I looked and I couldn’t find an issue.

Thanks,
Amanda Stevens
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi @astevens

No, I didn’t file a github issue - would you like me to?

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Hi @shaun,

No, that’s fine, I filed an issue. I just wanted to make sure you hadn’t already and I had missed it. Here is the issue: Missing spaces in Endnote RIS template for Citation Style Language plugin · Issue #4802 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub. Please feel free to add comments.

Thanks,
Amanda Stevens
Public Knowledge Project Team

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