Convert RIS to Markdown.
Drop a RIS export and get a clean reference list in seconds. It runs entirely in your browser, so your file never leaves your device.
Drag & drop your files
or
Optimize for AI & RAG
Extra cleanup for LLM ingestion: strip HTML, fix smart quotes, tidy Unicode and spacing.
Add YAML front matter
Prepend a metadata block (title, source, date, word & token counts) for knowledge bases and RAG.
Add table of contents
Build a linked index from the headings. Handy for long documents.
Export RAG chunks (.json)
Split the result into retrieval-ready chunks. Download per file from the result panel.
Most converters quietly upload your documents to a server. This one physically can't.
Made for tools,
not for reading.
A RIS file is a stack of two-letter tags that EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley read, not people. Converting turns each record into a plain reference you can read and reuse.
TY - JOUR
AU - Smith, Jane
TI - On Markdown
PY - 2026
JO - Journal of Docs
DO - 10.1000/abcd
ER -
## On Markdown
- Authors: Smith, Jane
- Year: 2026
- Published: Journal of Docs
- DOI: 10.1000/abcd
- Type: JOUR
Everything you
actually need.
Tagged citations in, a clean reference list out, with no server and no account anywhere.
It never leaves your browser
Your .ris is read and parsed on your device. Nothing is uploaded to any server, ever.
# Heading
- point one
3 chunks
AI & RAG ready
Optional cleanup, YAML front matter, a table of contents and RAG chunk export.
Works offline
Once the page has loaded you can switch off your connection and it keeps converting.
## On Markdown
- Authors: Smith, Jane
- Year: 2026
A reference list
Each tagged record turns into a heading, with its fields laid out as bullets beneath it.
Unicode safe
Accents, symbols and non-Latin scripts come through intact as UTF-8.
Free, and unlimited
No sign-up, no quotas, no watermarks. Convert one file or a thousand; it all runs the same way, on your own device.
Which tags
come across.
Honest about which fields come through, and which are left out. These are the same notes the Formats list shows for RIS, so the page never drifts from what the converter really does.
Kept
4- Reference type
- Authors and title
- Year and journal
- Publisher, DOI and URL
Dropped
4- Pages
- Volume
- Keywords
- Abstract
RIS questions,
answered.
Everything worth knowing before you drop in a RIS export.
Other converters.
Working with more than citations? These convert the same way: privately, in your browser.
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.scd
scdoc man-page source.
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.gmi
Gemini protocol pages.
txt2tags to Markdown
.t2t
txt2tags markup.
Djot to Markdown
.dj
Djot lightweight markup.
JSON to Markdown
.json · .jsonc · .json5 · .ndjson
JavaScript Object Notation data.
XML to Markdown
.xml
Extensible markup data.
YAML to Markdown
.yaml · .yml
Human-friendly config data.
TOML to Markdown
.toml
Readable configuration files.