On 23/07/2010 11:17 AM, Paul Johnson 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
Is this using the "note" field? The "note" field is for things like "and
references therein", i.e. actual info to appear after a bibliography
entry. You should not use the "note" field if you don't want this info
included in the bibliography. Use a different field; "comment" comes to
mind. Anything that bibtex doesn't know about, it will ignore and leave out.
Alternatively, modify your bibtex style file (apalike.bst) to gobble the
"note" field. But you will run into this problem again with other style
files because displaying the "note" field is fairly standard.
Cheers,
Julien
