![]() ![]() This conversion can be switched off by enclosing the words not to be converted into an extra pair of braces, like so: title = command in your Latex file.) Most importantly, it is a good idea to have a systematic approach to choosing keys. For example, the title “A review of HIV biology” will be typeset as “A review of hiv biology”. This convention has the unfortunate side effect that proper nouns or acronyms, which should be capitalized, will be converted into lower-case as well. Bibtex enforces this capitalization rule by automatically converting everything in the article title field to lower-case. In a nutshell, this means that all words except the first one, proper nouns, and acronyms are spelled in lower case (see e.g. 1 The following sections address some of the most common issues that I see in daily Bibtex use.Īrticle titles in a reference list should be capitalized in sentence case. All bibliography managers that automatically generate Bibtex entries mess things up.Ī corollary of the second law is that all Bibtex entries need to be hand-curated to work correctly.My guidelines are shaped by the following two insights, which I call the first and second law of Bibtex: (This document is well worth the read for anybody using bibtex with some regularity.) To help ordinary mortals succeed with using Bibtex, I’m providing here a set of best practices and useful guidelines that help you steer clear of the worst pitfalls of Bibtex. In fact, the most complete description of bibtex’s inner workings is aptly called Tame the BeaST. It uses an awkward database format for storing bibliographic entries and an atrocious, poorly-documented programming language for describing how bibliographic entries should be formatted. Bibtex is an archaic program, written 30 years ago by a graduate student and never substantively changed or updated since. I have also rarely met anybody who could use it without messing up their bibliography in some way. I have used it for 20 years, I have written over 100 papers with it, and I think it works really well. ![]() Just as an import and export format.Bibtex is the reference manager for Latex. I used BibDesk since it treats the BibTeX file as a database and not Which looks a lot cleaner and functional and maps much better on to how In theory I could do it, but if it could be avoided that would It is a problem because I don’t want to have to update all theĬitation-keys I have littered around my dissertation manuscript and in It generates new ones! Ordinarily I guess this would be OK. It turns out Zotero doesn’t respect citation-keys on import. $ bibdesk2zotero citations.bib /home/ed/DropBox/BibDesk/ > new-citations.bib It certainly helped me :) $ pip install bibdesk2zotero Hopefully this helps someone sometime, but if not, You can give your BibTeX file and a root file location and it will emit I doubt anyone else will ever find themselves in this predicament,īut if they do I bundled up the little program as bibdesk2zotero which The parsing and writing of the BibTeX data. Them as File fields so that Zotero can find them. So now I just needed to read in my BibTeX file, convert all theīdsk-File-n files (there can be more than one), and add To the PDF for this bibliographic entry on my DropBox share: papers/Berg/The multiple bodies of the medical record Toward.pdf Some binary data in there for the aliasMetadata (who knows)īut all I really need is in the relativePath. It may be hard to tell but this is a Python dictionary! There’s still Of the way BibDesk stores these file links. Out this isn’t really a Zotero problem as much as it is an idiosyncrasy But Zotero didn’t pick up the links to the PDFs. To imagine any other way of doing my research.īut alas BibDesk is Mac only. These papers ready to hand was essential to me when writing. Pirated collected, which sit on a DropBox share. Metadata and the two thousand or so PDF and EPUB files I’ve But most importantly it kept a link between my bibliographic I even use this BibDesk file to cite things here BibDesk saves citations in a BibTeX file which I couldĮasily integrate with other tools like Pandoc to generate nicely styled But itįlawlessly saved my citations and documents for me to use in my researchĪnd writing. It didn’t share myĬitations with the Internet, or do social this or cloud that. That I miss my Mac quite a bit is in bibliographic citation management.Īll throughout my PhD studies I’ve been using BibDesk. Mixture of being able to get a work laptop for free and peerĪnyway, it’s been mostly a smooth transition so far. Honestly, Iĭon’t even remember why I switched back then. Had been using various Linux based systems pretty happily. Before I switched to Apple ~10 years ago I Partly motivated by recent hardware failure, partly it was just time forĪ change, but you know honestly Apple is justĪnd I needed to press eject. I’ve recently moved off of OS X and on to Ubuntu. ![]()
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