They were unfortunately created in plain text and not with any reference manager plugin or Word's own reference function.
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If the references in Word was created using a Reference Manager tool like Zotero or Mendeley, the data is already in structured format and you can extract them using the free Reference Extractor tool with almost 100% accuracy.
Similarly if the references were created with Word's build-in reference function you can follow the procedure here to extract them.
However if the references were created manually by hand then you will need to use various tools to parse your plain-text bibliography or references into BibTex format that can then be imported to reference management software, Do note that these tools are not 100% accurate, depending on the citation style used.
Tool #1: AnyStyle.io
Assign label
and choose the correct one.Tool #2: Scholarcy Reference Parser
Convert
Ctrl + C
)File
>> Import from Clipboard
. This will paste the BibText entry from earlier to your Zotero library.If these methods do not work well, or you need to do this process in bulk please approach the library for assistance.
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