bibtexyaml

Write your bibliography in YAML and convert it to BibTeX.

Usage

Put one or more BibTeX references into a file called new.bib. For example

@conference{davis2018,
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Example Conference},
  year      = {2018},
  author    = {Davis, Bob},
  title     = {A Conference Paper}
}

Then use bibtexyaml reverse <name>.yaml to convert the entries to YAML and append them to the end of your current bibliography in <name>.yaml. If it doesn't exist, it will be created automatically. It may look something like this

entries:
  - id: davis2018
    type: conference
    fields:
      # booktitle: Proceedings of the Example Conference
      year: 2018
      author: Davis, Bob
      title: A Conference Paper

Note that once you do this, new.bib will be cleared. Next, you can comment out fields as has been done with booktitle above.

Use bibtexyaml template <name>.yaml to convert your YAML bibliography back into BibTeX. This will overwrite your <name>.bib file, or create it if it does not exist. In this case it will produce the following

@conference{davis2018,
  author = {Davis, Bob},
  title  = {A Conference Paper},
  year   = {2018}
}

The unwanted field booktitle is now removed, and this can easily be undone by uncommenting the line in <name>.yaml. This is the general workflow of bibtexyaml.

See new.bib, test.yaml and test.bib for a more comprehensive example.

Installation

First, install Go.

Next, install the current version of bibtexyaml

go install github.com/afninfa/bibtexyaml@v1.2.4

You'll also need to add your go binaries to the PATH

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin

Don't forget to add this to ~/.bashrc to run it every time you open a new shell.

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