bibtex_clean: simple way to format and validate .bib files

What is it?

Tired of going through your bibtex files and manually applying weird title rules? Is the file getting messy, with many duplicate entries, missing or invalid fields? bibtex_clean is a CLI tool to clean bibtex files.

Supported Rules:

• Chicago

Supported Styles:

• aer.bst

Features:

• Merge duplicate entries
• Capitalize appropriate fields
  • Rules applied are naive. For example, "on" could be a preposition or an adjective, but "on" is always treated as a preposition.
• Warn if entry type is invalid
• Warn if entry is missing required fields
• Warn if entry has unsupported fields

Usage:

Dependencies

• [bibtexparser - Parses your bibtex file]
• [colorama - Pretty terminal output]

Installing

The easiest way is to install bibtex_clean from PyPI using pip:

pip install bibtex_clean

Running

After installation, a bibtex_clean command should be exposed to anywhere on the command line.

bibtex_clean /path/to/your/file

Will then output a file named "yourfile_clean.bib" in the same directory as your file. By default, bibtex_clean follows the AER style guide and uses Chicago Title Case. In the future, command line switches in the style of

bibtex_clean /path/to/your/file -style="{style}"

will be supported.

To specify the name of the cleaned .bib file, simply do

bibtex_clean /path/to/your/file /path/to/new/file

TODO:

• Additional styles
• Additional title case rules