An option for cleaning up bib entries, if you are interested in using BibLaTeX
(perhaps to take advantage of its Unicode-awareness and sophisticated reference
parsing with Biber), is Convertbibliography by Thomas Hodgson.
Convertbibliography executes about 36 cleanup operations, like:
• Author and editor names are put in LastName, FirstName order
• LaTeX non-ASCII characters are converted to unicode
• If a record doesn't have a citekey then one is added of the form
'Foo' + a unique numeral
• Spaces are removed from citekeys
• Unicode encoding is set
• Titles are put in Title Case
• 'booktitle' fields are removed
• Dashes are replaced with double hyphens ('--') in 'pages', 'volume',
and 'number' fields
• 'pages' fields have 'pp.', 'p.' removed
This script is available from its GitHub repository:
https://github.com/twsh/Convertbibliography .
This script requires installing Python3. Even if that is not something you've
done, it is easy to do on a Mac with Homebrew. First install Homebrew with the
instructions on its webpage. Then `brew install Python3`. Then you can install
the required modules with Python's own installer, like `pip3 install
titlecase`. And finally, the README for Convertbibliography on GitHub contains
its own fairly straightforward installation and execution instructions.
There are probably other options. I use this one constantly.
> On Dec 23, 2020, at 9:09 AM, bibdesk-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net
> wrote:
>
> From: Ronald Haynes <rhayne...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Bibdesk-users] attachments
> Date: December 23, 2020 at 8:22:58 AM EST
> To: bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>
>
> Hi folks, new bibdesk user here. I have a .bib file with 2000+ items. Two
> issues:
>
> i) Almost have a file= entries which are absolute paths to pdfs. The
> attachments are not appearing in preview and no option to open from within
> bibdesk. Suggestions?
>
> ii) What options are there to clean up the bib entries? correcting author
> format etc?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dr. Ronald D. Haynes
>
> Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
> Chair, MSc and PhD Scientific Computing Programs
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
>
> We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are
> situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and
> we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the
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