Biblioscape 6 doesn't have many changes in the user interface. But underneath, major improvements were made in the core of the reference module. All major styles are now supported, including those used in soft science fields with footnotes or endnotes. Regular expressions can now be used in an import filter. This makes it possible for Biblioscape to handle any kinds of tagged file with ease. Here are the main improvements in Biblioscape 6.
Documents with large graphics and OLE objects can now be handled for formatting.
Temporary citations can now be added to footnote or endnote when using styles that support notes style bibliography.
In style editor, options were added to handle formatting and sorting anonymous works.
In style editor, end page can be formatted as 2-digits number.
In style editor, a check box were added to remove periods in journal name.
In style editor, ambiguous citations can now be handled in 4 different ways.
In style editor, subsequent works by the same authors can now be handled in both citations and bibliography.
In style editor, multiple citations can now be sorted by 5 different ways. So it is no longer necessary to do the sorting in temporary citations.
In style editor, Title field can now be formatted in 3 ways: as is, headline, sentence.
In style editor, repeated citations in footnotes or endnotes handling is now supported.
In style editor, references section layout can now be specified using indentation and spacing properties.
In style editor, authors list cutoff is now handled in a better way.
In style editor, "cited pages" field is added for formatting. Cited pages is not stored in the database, but added by authors inside temporary citations in footnotes or endnotes.
Two fields "Favorite" and "Category" were added to style table. Styles can be sorted or grouped by these two fields.
All major styles are now supported, including Chicago, MLA, APA, Turabian, ACS, CBE, Harvard, Vancouver, etc. Styles for citing inside footnotes or endnotes starts with "*" in their names.
Regular expression can now be used in import filter to match tags in import file. Regular expression string should be added inside RE(...)RE.
Two fields "Favorite" and "Category" were added to import filter table. Import filters can be sorted or grouped by these two fields.
Subject bibliography support is added under "File | Print Bibliographies". Any field can be selected as the subject and any output style can be used to generate the formatted list. Both subject and the number of counts can be used to sort references in ascending or descending order.
Regular expression is also added to the "Edit | Find" and "Edit | Replace" window. When the box "Regular Expression" is checked, the text in the "Find" box is treated as regular expression pattern.
Better support for international users. Now switching to another language is as easy as going to the "Tools | Options" window and change two settings on the "Format Manuscript" tab. All major languages are supported including all European languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.
An "Import from Clipboard" button is added to the import window. So user can copy records from a Web page, go to Biblioscape import Window to click this button without going through save a file and import that file.