How to cite from a .ris file

Question

I have a Latex code

documentclass{article}
 usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
 usepackage[backend=biber,style=apa]{biblatex}                           
 addbibresource[datatype=ris]{test.ris}
 begin{document}
 cite{ref_test}
 printbibliography
 end{document}

and a .ris document

TY  - JOUR
ID  - ref_test
AU  - author1
AU  - author2
TI  - Big title
JA  - The Great Journal
PY  - 2012/07/15/online
VL  - 3
PB  - The Grand Publishing Group.
SN  - 146-157
ER  -

I attempt to use the

ID

field to create a reference. However running

xelatex citation.tex

I get the following error

LaTeX Warning: Citation 'ref_test' on page 1 undefined on input line 6.

LaTeX Warning: Empty bibliography on input line 7.

I shouldn't run

bibtex citation_test.aux

because the backend is specified as biber.

Running

biber citation_test

gives the following error

INFO - This is Biber 2.6
INFO - Logfile is 'citation_test.blg'
INFO - Reading 'citation_test.bcf'
INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
ERROR - Error loading data source package 'Biber::Input::file::ris': Can't locate Biber/Input/file/ris.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Biber::Input::file::ris module) (@INC contains: /tmp/par-76/cache-cd1af140044333e1ef20f6247fed92316f8757f1/inc/lib /tmp/par-76/cache-cd1af140044333e1ef20f6247fed92316f8757f1/inc CODE(0x31099d8) CODE(0x3118e88)) at (eval 142) line 2.

INFO - ERRORS: 1

How cite from a .ris file?

cfr · Accepted Answer

ris is not a currently supported data type according to the manual. The two supported types are bibtex and biblatexml. See page 77 of the current manual. I convert ris to xml using ris2xml and then convert the result to bibtex using xml2bib. For example, ris2xml ".ris" | xml2bib -b > ".bib" where is the base file name. These instructions assume a Unix-ish system, obviously, but there may be something similar for other platforms.

Färid Alijani · Answer

One can also use BibItNow extension on Google Chrome to generate Bibtex, RIS, Endnote, APA, MLA bibliography items from journal articles, books and etc:
You can learn more in here.

shanbhag · Answer

Just use the online converter from ris to bibtex.
https://www.bruot.org/ris2bib/

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