Bibly

Bibly simplifies the creation and maintenance of bibliographies in LaTeX documents by fetching the BibTex entries corresponding to LaTeX citations.

Requirements

• Node.js

Installation

$ npm i -g bibly

Usage

Create a file named bibly.json in your LaTeX working directory like this:

{
    "latex": "draft.tex",
    "databases": {
        "DBLP": {
            "file": "dblp.bib",
            "parameters": {
                "param": 1
            },
            "suffix": ".bib",
            "url": "https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec"
        }
    }
}

substituting the name of your LaTeX source file for draft.tex. Then just run

$ bibly

Bibly will then locate your citations of the form DB:key, fetch the records from the specified web database, then write them to the specified file. For instance, given the citations \cite{DBLP:conf/popl/CousotC77} and \cite{DBLP:conf/popl/CousotC79} from draft.tex and the bibly.json file listed above, Bibly will populate the file dblp.bib with the following records:

@inproceedings{conf/popl/CousotC77,
  author    = {Patrick Cousot and
               Radhia Cousot},
  editor    = {Robert M. Graham and
               Michael A. Harrison and
               Ravi Sethi},
  title     = {Abstract Interpretation: {A} Unified Lattice Model for Static Analysis
               of Programs by Construction or Approximation of Fixpoints},
  booktitle = {Conference Record of the Fourth {ACM} Symposium on Principles of Programming
               Languages, Los Angeles, California, USA, January 1977},
  pages     = {238--252},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {1977},
  url       = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/512950.512973},
  doi       = {10.1145/512950.512973},
  timestamp = {Mon, 21 May 2012 16:19:51 +0200},
  biburl    = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/popl/CousotC77},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
}

@inproceedings{conf/popl/CousotC79,
  author    = {Patrick Cousot and
               Radhia Cousot},
  editor    = {Alfred V. Aho and
               Stephen N. Zilles and
               Barry K. Rosen},
  title     = {Systematic Design of Program Analysis Frameworks},
  booktitle = {Conference Record of the Sixth Annual {ACM} Symposium on Principles
               of Programming Languages, San Antonio, Texas, USA, January 1979},
  pages     = {269--282},
  publisher = {{ACM} Press},
  year      = {1979},
  url       = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/567752.567778},
  doi       = {10.1145/567752.567778},
  timestamp = {Mon, 21 May 2012 16:19:51 +0200},
  biburl    = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/popl/CousotC79},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
}

This can be run each time new citations are added.

Development

Emulate installation of local repository:

$ npm link

Release a new version to npm:

$ npm version [major|minor|patch]
$ npm publish