BibTeX Tidy

This tool tidies bibtex files by fixing inconsistent whitespace, removing duplicates, removing unwanted fields, and sorting entries.

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Whitespace

Spaces:

Column:

Values

Fields to enclose in double braces:

Space delimited, e.g: title journal. -year author.

Author lists longer than this will be truncated to "and others".

Sorting

Fields to sort by:

Space delimited, e.g: key type publisher author. For descending order, prefix the field name with a dash, e.g. -year author.

Field order:

Space delimited, e.g: title author year

Duplicates

What to check:

Matching Keys Matching DOIs Similar author and title Similar abstracts

Combine (default)
Keep original entry and merge in fields of duplicates if they do not already exist Overwrite
Keep original entry and merge in fields of duplicates, overwriting existing fields if they exist First
Only keep the original entry Last
Only keep the last found duplicate

Clean up

Fields to omit:

Space delimited, e.g: id type publisher author

CLI

To run this configuration on the command line: