There are a bunch of systems that will produce formatted output, but none that I know of that are smart enough to understand a random selection of formats and recreate them in format x.
No doubt people will chime in with their favourites, some are seemingly better at some formats than others, so you ought to say which output style you want and take the next step in selecting the system you want to use. Personally, I prefer bibtex and a text bib file. Aside from that, I tend to type my references by hand these days because in the end, I have wasted more time trying to get reference databases to output what I want than I would have spent just typing them up. If however it is your choice to use a system, then you will need to extract the relevant data and input that into their relevant fields. No system I have found is smart enough to do that for me, but I might have missed that episode of CSI. Regards Alan On 13/02/13 9:10 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an > existing reference list made up of entries in a variety of formats and render > a list in which all references have the same format? Not necessarily in > FrameMaker: Word would do. > > I have, for example, a mix of Art Snoggins and Snoggins A., some page ranges > that use hyphens, some that use en dashes, the same journal or conference > listed in three or four different ways, and so on. Yech. > -- AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland http://www.alphabyte.co.nz