davidagraf/doi2bib2

Make month field return integer, not abbreviation

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Benjamin-Lee commented

For example,

@article{Karlin1998,
  doi = {10.1016/s1369-5274(98)80095-7},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/s1369-5274(98)80095-7},
  year  = {1998},
  month = {10},
  publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
  volume = {1},
  number = {5},
  pages = {598--610},
  author = {Samuel Karlin},
  title = {Global dinucleotide signatures and analysis of genomic heterogeneity},
  journal = {Current Opinion in Microbiology}
}

rather than

@article{Karlin1998,
  doi = {10.1016/s1369-5274(98)80095-7},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/s1369-5274(98)80095-7},
  year  = {1998},
  month = {oct},
  publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
  volume = {1},
  number = {5},
  pages = {598--610},
  author = {Samuel Karlin},
  title = {Global dinucleotide signatures and analysis of genomic heterogeneity},
  journal = {Current Opinion in Microbiology}
}

During compilation using ShareLaTeX, I get this warning when using the month abbreviation:

BibTeX month field 'oct' in entry 'Karlin1998' is not an integer - this will probably not sort properly.

axkibe commented

month = oct,
would work fine too. It's just the brackets that are wrong. oct would be a default macro resolving to 10.

jowens commented

@axkibe is right (this is the only correct way to do it: month = oct). BibTeX has built-in abbreviations for the months (the first three letters of their English month names, all lower case).

FWIW, day-month is month = "9~" # dec and month range is month = aug # "\slash " # sep.

jowens commented

Still interested in seeing this fix.

thurnherr commented

By fix, do you mean removing the curly brackets? My concern with numbers is that it is not compatible with natbib/bibtex.

axkibe commented

Curly brackets around months are definitely wrong.
I don't know about natbib. But without brackets it's correct as infact they are only a @string macros to numbers, which breaks if you put brackets around them and messes up sorting.
I don't care if it is replaced with numbers or with names without brackets... both work. Names with brackets don't.

davidagraf commented

It's done. The curly brackets around month is gone.

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