This is not where active development is happening. See http://github.com/caltechlibrary/bibtex for active development.

bibtex

A quick and dirty BibTeX package. Includes bibfilter which can parse and filter tag entries of a BibTeX file.

Usage

 bibfilter [OPTION] BIBFILE

This command will output BIBFILE to the console applying the options specified.

Options

• -exclude a comma separated list of tags to exclude
• -include a comma separated list of tags to include
• -h display help information
• -l display license
• -v display version information

Examples

Output my.bib without any comment entries

    bibfilter -exlude=comment my.bib

Output my.bib only including articles

    bibfilter -include=article my.bib

Output my.bib only including articles and proceedings

    bibfilter -include=article,inproceedings my.bib

Prior art

• makebib.perl - Converts plain text through a series regexp rules into BibTeX
  • Perl script includes self test that maybe helpful
• pybtex - Python BibTeX processor
• peer2 - Golang port of a Python tool called peer, it can do basic BibTeX format parsing
• r59-lex.go - Golang, simple lexer example using goroutines
  • meling/biblexer - a Golang BibTeX lexer based on Rob Pike's r59-lex.go
• nickng/bibtex - Golang, BibTeX parser package
• tmc/bibtex - Golang, BibTeX parser package
• sotetsuk/gobibtext - Golang, a BibTeX parser implementing the Decode, Encode function approach

About BibTeX

• Wikipedia page on BibTeX
  • includes good description of currently used fields
• Bibliographies with BibTeX
  • article explaining practical usage
• bibtex.org
  • format
  • usage

Open Source Citation Tools

• JabRef - an open source bibliography reference manager.
  • The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format.
• Zotero
  • Provides a hosted solution
  • License
  • Source Code
    • Developer docs