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I find formatting is usually a nonissue with BibTeX files as entries tend to already be automatically generated from some authoritative source (e.g., CrossRef). What I do end up using a lot however is nschloe's betterbib [1]. [1] https://github.com/nschloe/betterbib
My .bib files are a mess. This is partly because I tried to order the file by year then author (manually), which of course resulted in some errors. And also because I write some free text in between entries which talk about the papers and have some keywords that I'm able to search for entries in. I'd really like some sort of citation manager that uses a .bib file as the data format.
% Turn DOI links into pure DOI.
rename.field { url=doi if url = "10\.[0-9.]+/[-._;()/:a-zA-Z0-9]+" }
rewrite.rule { doi # ".*/\(10\.[0-9.]+\/[-._;()/:a-zA-Z0-9]+\)" # "{\1}" }
My .bib files are a mess. This is partly because I tried to order the file by year then author (manually), which of course resulted in some errors. And also because I write some free text in between entries which talk about the papers and have some keywords that I'm able to search for entries in. I'd really like some sort of citation manager that uses a .bib file as the data format.
[3]: https://www.contextgarden.net
My .bib files are a mess. This is partly because I tried to order the file by year then author (manually), which of course resulted in some errors. And also because I write some free text in between entries which talk about the papers and have some keywords that I'm able to search for entries in. I'd really like some sort of citation manager that uses a .bib file as the data format.
E.g. I can change the bib entry name, put a comment `% alias: old-name` above it, and my auto-fix script will go through my tex files and update them accordingly. This is helpful when I found out later that I had a duplicate entry, or when I just want to rename the bib entry name.
It is sometimes a bit ambiguous when there is an Arxiv version from a different year than the proceedings publication. In that case, I use the proceedings publication, with a reference to Arxiv as well, and I set the year to the proceedings publication.
I have a consistent format for pure Arxiv publications, using misc, and not article as Google Scholar would output it. If I have this inconsistent anywhere, my script would auto-fix this to make it consistent. Or if some entries are missing, it would automatically complete them.
I made a really rough script that does a bunch of transformations on bibtex files to have them be ready for use in academic papers: 1. Shorten author lists to 10 authors 2. Abbreviate journal names 3. Remove unneeded IDs and replace with doi links 4. Remove unneeded tags (file, abstract) https://gist.github.com/joebentley/6e3e4198ea427545738a82021...
Normally the Bibtex style would automatically do that for you already, and it is configurable. And it would automatically append "et al" then. The templates of many conferences usually do that for you.
My .bib files are a mess. This is partly because I tried to order the file by year then author (manually), which of course resulted in some errors. And also because I write some free text in between entries which talk about the papers and have some keywords that I'm able to search for entries in. I'd really like some sort of citation manager that uses a .bib file as the data format.