Ruby script to convert Hein Online citations to AGLC
I use Hein Online a lot, but have recently become sick of having to manually reformat the citations it gives me for journal articles (to the format I use, following the Australian Guide to Legal Citation. So, procrastinating, I wrote a quick script to do exactly that. Someone else may find it useful.
Input example:
82 Ind. L.J. 261 (2007)
On Virtual Worlds: Copyright and Contract Law at the Dawn of the Virtual Age; Reuveni, Erez
AGLC formatted output:
Reuveni, Erez , “On Virtual Worlds: Copyright and Contract Law at the Dawn of the Virtual Age” (2007) 82 Ind. L.J. 261
#!/usr/bin/ruby
# 20080603 Nic Suzor
# Available under CC BY-SA 2.5 (AU) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/
#
# Alternatively, permission is granted to exercise any of the rights comprised
# in the copyright in this code, as long as the user agrees that it is provided with
# no warranty, express or implied, to the extent permissible by applicable law.
puts "this script will convert Hein Online citations to AGLC formatted citations."
puts "\n"
puts "enter a Hein Online cite (on up to two lines):"
cite = gets.chomp!
cite = cite + gets.chomp!
while cite != ''
#eg: 82 Ind. L.J. 261 (2007) On Virtual Worlds: Copyright and Contract Law at the Dawn of the Virtual Age; Reuveni, Erez
#becomes: Reuveni, Erez, "On Virtual Worlds: Copyright and Contract Law at the Dawn of the Virtual Age" (2007) 82 Ind. L.J. 261
cite = cite.gsub(/(.*?)(\(.*?\))(.*?); *(.*?)\Z/, '\4, "\3" \2 \1')
puts cite
puts "\nNext cite (enter two carriage returns to finish):\n"
cite = gets.chomp!
cite = cite + gets.chomp!
end
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