Usually, programs that generate BibTex files (.bib) can import RIS (Research Information Systems) and thus essentially convert the data from .ris file to a .bib file. A bunch of useful utilities called Bibutils exist, and these can help users with ris to bib conversion, but it may require a middle-step conversion to convert ris to bib, i.e. first export ris to xml and then convert xml to bib.
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Conversion of ris file format to bib file format beta
Search for ris to bib converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Research Information Systems citation to BibTeX document.
We have found 4 software records in our database eligible for .ris to .bib file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert ris to bib on Windows
Reference Manager
Bibliographic reference and citation management software
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from ris file | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
to bib file | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned ris to bib. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert ris to bib on OS X
BibDesk
A bibliography manager for Mac
Multiplatform software 
- convert ris to bib on any platform
Bibutils
A set of conversion utilities for bibliography formats
On-line services software 
- convert ris to bib on web
Online pmid to ris converter
An online citation converter
Additional links: Open ris file, Open bib file
RIS
Files with ris extension are generally related to Research Information System format. An ris file stores citation entries in ASCII text file format.
BIB
Files with bib extension are in most cases documents from the BibTeX reference management software.
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