bib et al. - The "One author et al." tool

bibetal is a pure Python script that rewrites bib files to only contain one author / editor per entry. Other authors / editors are automatically replaced by and others, which in turn is parsed as et al. in most bibliographies.

Installation

bibetal can be installed using pip:

pip install bibetal

Usage

Currently, bibetal only processes one file at a time and edits it in-place:

bibetal <FILE>

Contributing

Feel free to contribute or propose ideas using the Issues and Pull requests tabs.