This chapter explains the ways how you can generate reference and extended note data suitable for refdb databases. We'll cover manual generation of RIS files and automatic conversion of other bibliographic data with the help of input filters. You'll learn about writing risx documents, a new XML data format designed to simplify funneling XML or SGML bibliographic data into refdb. risx is the preferable format to fully utilize refdb's capabilities. Finally we'll cover writing extended notes that allow to append additional information to objects in your database or to categorize references in a very flexible way.
To actually import the resulting RIS datasets into the refdb database, use the addref command of the refdbc command line client, as explained in the next chapter.