Generating bibliographic files (BibTeX, RIS, etc.) from database records

Question

Are there methods or tools to facilitate generating bibliographic data files (for BibTeX, EndNote, RefMan, etc.) from database records to show to visitors of a website so they can easily import the citations?

Answer 1

A powerful tool to convert between various bibliographic formats is bibutils. EndNote and RefMan should both readily accept the RIS format.

Answer 2

On a Linux system you can execute

cat myrisfile.ris | ris2xml | xml2bib > mybibfile.bib

to convert myrisfile.ris to mybibfile.bib in a BibTeX format if the package bibutils is installed.