On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, everybody.
>
> In the last year or so, I've been testing services like CiteULike and
> Zotero to build a biblio database as I research. This works pretty
> well to output the citations to a bib file and work with LyX.
>
> I notice only one substantial problem. The citations from those online
> services have extraneous information that I don't want to appear in
> the bibliography. But when I use natbib citations with a format like
> "apalike" (or any other, as far as I can tell), the extra info in the
> bibtex data base comes into the final document. I'm now pasting from
> the pdf output from LyX
>
> L’Ecuyer, P., Simard, R., Chen, E. J., and Kelton, W. D. (2002). An
> Object-Oriented Random-
> Number package with many long streams and substreams. Operations
> Research, 50(6):1073–1075.
> ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Nov. - Dec.,
> 2002 / Copyright  c 2002
> INFORMS.
>
>
> The part that starts ArticleType and goes to the end is extraneous,
> should not be printed.
>
> The only fix I have found is to go through the bib file and just
> manually delete that stuff.
>
> But I know there must be a better way. yes?
>
> pj
>
I have encountered the same problem and my solution is to exclude the bibtex
field(s) containing the extra information from the final output. This is
relatively easy with biblatex.: for the "note" field, for instance, I just
add a command like \DeclareFieldFormat{note}{} to the preamble. Similarly
for other fields. Standard bibtex may require tweaking the appropriate style
file (apalike.bst, for instance), a feat I never attempted.
Cheers,
Stefano
>
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