bibtex-formatter 1.3.0

Format

BibTeX Formatter

Help generate citations that meet the requirements for conference and journal submissions.

Quick Installation

Install from PyPi:

pip install -U bibtex-formatter

Alternatively, you can also install the latest version (not stable) from github:

pip install -U git+https://github.com/Nickydusk/BibTeX-Formatter.git@main

Usage

bfm IN_FILE

Positional args:

• IN_FILE: Choose the input .bib file, default to in.bib

Options (Please see bfm --help for more details):

• -o OUTPUT,--output OUTPUT: Choose the output .bib file, default to out.bib
• -l LOG,--log LOG: Choose the output log file, default to logs.txt
• -d, --use_database: Do online check with NJU database, default to False (The feature may override correct entries, use with caution!)

Features

• Remove duplicate citations (keep the first occurrence), log what is removed
• Simplify keys according to citation type (e.g., @inproceedings -> [author, title, booktitle, pages, year])
• Standardize conference / journal names (e.g., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems)
• Standardize "pages" to pages = {start-end}, alert if more or less timestamps.
• Standardize arXiv citations to google scholar style
  • arXiv export bibtex -> google scholar style
  • dblp bibtex -> google scholar style
• Online check contents, make sure they are up to date

Welcome to PR

You can make contribution to the project by filling more standard conference / journal names in refactor/STANDARD_NAMES. Please use pull requests to submit your changes.