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Introduction
Field Mapping between MS-Office and JabRef
JabRef supports the MS Office Bibliography xml format for exporting and
importing. Some field names in the xml format differ from the field names
in the BibTeX/BibLaTeX format and can therefore be not directly mapped
between the formats. Therefore this help file provides a list of all field
mappings.

Entry Type Mappings

BibTeX/BibLaTeX entry type XML entry type

book Book
inbook BookSection
booklet BookSection
incollection BookSection
article JournalArticle
inproceedings ConferenceProceedings
conference ConferenceProceedings
proceedings ConferenceProceedings
collection ConferenceProceedings
techreport Report
manual Report
mastersthesis Report
phdthesis Report
unpublished Report
patent Patent
misc Misc
electronic ElectronicSource
online InternetSite
periodical ArticleInAPeriodical
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Field mappings

The field mapping for import and export is mostly the same, but there are
some differences, as not all field exists in both formats. Addtionally, some
fields have to be treated differently during import/export.

BibTeX/BibLaTeX XML field

bibtexkey Tag
title Title
year Year
note Comments
volume Volume
language LCID
edition Edition
publisher Publisher
booktitle BookTitle
chapter ChapterNumber
issue Issue
school Department
institution Institution
doi DOI
url url
shorttitle ShortTitle
pages Pages
authors Authors
editors Editors
volumes NumberVolumes

BibTeX/BibLaTeX only fields

The following fields are BibTeX/BibLaTex only fields, they have no

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representation in office xml. In the resulting xml file they are represented
with the prefix BIBTEX_

BibTeX/BibLaTeX only fields XML representation

series BIBTEX_Series
abstract BIBTEX_Abstract
keywords BIBTEX_KeyWords
crossref BIBTEX_CrossRef
howpublished BIBTEX_HowPublished
affiliation BIBTEX_Affiliation
contents BIBTEX_Contents
copyright BIBTEX_Copyright
price BIBTEX_Price
size BIBTEX_Size
intype BIBTEX_InType
paper BIBTEX_Paper
<BibTexEntryType> BIBTEX_Entry
<BibTexEntryType> SourceType
key (not BibTeX-Key) BIBTEX_KEY
pubstate BITEX_Pubstate

The xml field SourceType contains the associated entry type from the first
table, while the original BibTeX/BibLaTex entrytype is preserved in the field
BIBTEX_ENTRY.

MS-Bib only fields

The following fields are XML-only fields, they have no BibTeX/BibLaTex

representation: In the resulting bib database they are represented with the
prefix msbib-.

BibTeX/BibLaTex
XML field
represenation

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msbib-numberofvolume NumberVolumes
msbib-periodical PeriodicalTitle
msbib-day Day
Accessed (YearAccessed, MonthAccessed,
msbib-accessed
DayAccessed)
msbib-medium Medium
msbib-recordingnumber RecordingNumber
msbib-theater Theater
msbib-distributor Distributor
msbib-broadcaster Broadcaster
msbib-station Station
msbib-type Type
msbib-court Court
msbib-reporter Reporter
msbib-casenumber CaseNumber
msbib-
AbbreviatedCaseNumber
abbreviatedcasenumber
msbib-productioncompany ProductionCompany
msbib-translator translators
msbib-producername producerNames
msbib-composer composers
msbib-conductor conductors
msbib-performer performers
msbib-writer writers
msbib-director directors
msbib-compiler compilers
msbib-interviewer interviewers
msbib-interviewee interviewees
msbib-inventor inventors
msbib-counsel counsels

Special Export treatment

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The following fields are treated as follows during epxort:

BibTeX/BibLaTeX represenation XML field

booktitle ConferenceName
journal JournalName
journaltitle JournalName
month Month
date year
issue issue
isbn StandardNumber
issn StandardNumber
lccn StandardNumber
mrnumer StandardNumber
City, StateProvince,
address
CountryRegion
City, StateProvince,
location
CountryRegion
<EntryType is thesis> ThesisType
<EntryType is patent> number PatentNumber
number (entry is not patent) Number
Authors/Editors (single author/editor is enclosed
Corporate
in curly braces)

Special Import treatment

The following fields are treated as follows during import:

BibTeX/BibLaTeX represenation XML field

organization ConferenceName
journaltitle Journal
location City, StateProvince, CountryRegion

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