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Bibclean
About
Bibclean processes BibTeX bibliographies to remove/strip unwanted entries, and abbreviate long journal names. I wrote this utility because my reference manager (Mendeley) includes a lot of extra information in exported BibTeX files, and because I find bibliographies using "P Roy Soc A–Math Phy" much more readable than "Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences". Long journal names can quickly bloat any bibliography.
Installation
A virtualenv is recommended. I've dropped support for legacy Python, so Python 3.4+ only.
python setup.py install
This will install two executables: bibclean
and bibextra
.
bibclean
bibclean
provides the main functionality.
Fuzzy search
If the exact full journal name wasn't found in the abbreviations database,
bibclean
can perform a fuzzy search and report the top five matches. By
default, fuzzy search is disabled, because it is very time intensive.
bibextra
bibextra
contains the following utility functions:
-
dump
: scrape all the journal abbreviations from the Web of Knowledge site. PLEASE do not run this without reason. The included database already contains all the abbreviations already. -
query
: query the journal abbreviations database. By default, this will perform a fuzzy search if the exact journal name wasn't found. -
write_config
: writes a copy of the default configuration to the default user configuration directory (the exact path is printed on success).
The precedent of settings is default
< user
< command-line
.