bib et al. - The "One author et al." tool
bibetal is a pure Python script that rewrites bib files to only contain one author / editor per entry. Other authors / editors are automatically replaced by and others, which in turn is parsed as et al. in most bibliographies.
Installation
bibetal can be installed using pip
:
pip install bibetal
Usage
Currently, bibetal only processes one file at a time and edits it in-place:
bibetal <FILE>
Contributing
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