Tidy bibtex files. Try it out.
bibtex-tidy is free to use at https://flamingtempura.github.io/bibtex-tidy/
Before:
@ARTICLE {feinberg1983technique,
title={A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity},
author={Feinberg, Andrew P and Vogelstein, Bert},
journal = {Analytical biochemistry},
volume = 132,
number=1,
pages={6--13},
year=1983,
publisher={Elsevier},}
@article{miles1984qualitative,
title={Qualitative data analysis: A sourcebook},
author={Miles, Matthew B and Huberman, A Michael and Saldana, J},
journal={Beverly Hills},
year=1984
}After bibtex-tidy references.bib:
@article{feinberg1983technique,
title = {A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity},
author = {Feinberg, Andrew P and Vogelstein, Bert},
year = 1983,
journal = {Analytical biochemistry},
publisher = {Elsevier},
volume = 132,
number = 1,
pages = {6--13}
}
@article{miles1984qualitative,
title = {Qualitative data analysis: A sourcebook},
author = {Miles, Matthew B and Huberman, A Michael and Saldana, J},
year = 1984,
journal = {Beverly Hills}
}npm install -g bibtex-tidy
bibtex-tidy references.bibUsage: bibtex-tidy [OPTION]... FILE.BIB
BibTeX Tidy v1.7.1 - cleaner and formatter for BibTeX files.
Options:
--help, -h Show help
--omit Remove specified fields from bibliography entries.
Examples:
--omit=id,name
--curly, --no-curly Enclose all property values in braces. Quoted values
will be converted to braces. For example, "Journal of
Tea" will become {Journal of Tea}.
--numeric, --no-numeric Strip quotes and braces from numeric/month values. For
example, {1998} will become 1998.
--space Indent all fields with the specified number of spaces.
Ignored if tab is set.
Examples:
--space=2 (default)
--space=4
--tab, --no-tab Intent all fields with a tab.
--align, --no-align Insert whitespace between fields and values so that
values are visually aligned.
Examples:
--align=14 (default)
--sort, --no-sort Sort entries by specified fields. For descending order,
prefix the field with a dash (-).
Examples:
--sort (sort by id)
--sort=-year,name (sort year descending then name
ascending)
--sort=name,year
--duplicates Warn if duplicates are found, which are entries where
DOI, abstract, or author and title are the same.
Examples:
--duplicates doi (same DOIs)
--duplicates key (same IDs)
--duplicates abstract (similar abstracts)
--duplicates citation (similar author and titles)
--duplicates doi, key (identical DOI or keys)
--duplicates (same DOI, key, abstract, or citation)
--merge, --no-merge Merge duplicates entries. Use the duplicates option to
determine how duplicates are identified. There are
different ways to merge:
- first: only keep the original entry
- last: only keep the last found duplicate
- combine: keep original entry and merge in fields of
duplicates if they do not already exist
- overwrite: keep original entry and merge in fields of
duplicates, overwriting existing fields if they exist
--strip-enclosing-braces Where an entire value is enclosed in double braces,
remove the extra braces. For example, {{Journal of Tea}}
will become {Journal of Tea}.
--drop-all-caps Where values are all caps, make them title case. For
example, {JOURNAL OF TEA} will become {Journal of Tea}.
--escape, --no-escape Escape special characters, such as umlaut. This ensures
correct typesetting with latex. Enabled by default.
--sort-fields Sort the fields within entries.
If no fields are specified fields will be sorted by:
title, shorttitle, author, year, month, day, journal,
booktitle, location, on, publisher, address, series,
volume, number, pages, doi, isbn, issn, url, urldate,
copyright, category, note, metadata
Examples:
--sort-fields=name,author
--strip-comments, Remove all comments from the bibtex source.
--no-strip-comments
--trailing-commas, End the last key value pair in each entry with a comma.
--no-trailing-commas
--encode-urls, Replace invalid URL characters with percent encoded
--no-encode-urls values.
--tidy-comments, Remove whitespace surrounding comments.
--no-tidy-comments
--remove-empty-fields, Remove any fields that have empty values.
--no-remove-empty-fields
--remove-dupe-fields, Only allow one of each field in each entry. Enabled by
--no-remove-dupe-fields default.
--max-authors Truncate authors if above a given number into "and
others".
--no-lowercase Lowercase field names and entry type. Enabled by
default.
--enclosing-braces Enclose the given fields in double braces, such that
case is preserved during BibTeX compilation.
Examples:
--enclosing-braces=title,journal (output title and
journal fields will be of the form {{This is a title}})
--enclosing-braces (equivalent to
---enclosing-braces=title)
--wrap, --no-wrap Wrap long values at the given column
Examples:
--wrap (80 by default)
--wrap=82
--version, -v Show bibtex-tidy version.
--quiet Suppress logs and warnings.
--backup, --no-backup Make a backup <filename>.original. Enabled by default.
Full documentation <https://github.com/FlamingTempura/bibtex-tidy>npm install bibtex-tidy
const tidy = require('bibtex-tidy');
const bibtex = fs.readFileSync('references.bib', 'utf8');
tidy.tidy(bibtex, { curly: true });Documentation for the options can be found here