Table 4

Exportation files and files formats adopted by publishers for exporting articles' bibliographic metadata

Kind of formatReference styles or formats provided to export bibliographic referencesPercentual average of journals per subject area
Structured format (machine-readable)Bibtex69.9
RIS68
Refworks56
Endnote41
Mendeley28.6
Medlars24.2
Medline/Pubmed4.9
Unstructured format (plain text)Text (a.k.a. simple text or plain text) – refer to journals providing bibliographic references with no specification of the reference system in which it is formatted60.3
Chicago4

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