On Aug 31, 2010, at 13:35, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> On Aug 31, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
>> 
>> Incidentally, this is part of the reason I recommend RIS over BibTeX when 
>> importing from online sources; we put a lot of work into ensuring that 
>> BibDesk's conversion from RIS to BibTeX gives syntactically and semantically 
>> correct data.  Publishers' so-called BibTeX output is often lacking on both 
>> counts!
> 
> That's good to know because I would have guessed quite the opposite, i.e.,  
> if I want BibTeX citations and the publisher provides them, why bother with 
> RIS... Obviously, in this case the fault is with acs for providing an 
> incomplete bibtex record, including a raw & in the journal title. 

Yeah, putting math mode characters in titles is one of the biggest problems 
with online BibTeX sources.  BibDesk tries to fix that, although there are 
cases where it might not do what you want.

-- 
Adam

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