ISBN to BibTeX that checks 3 sources before giving up.

OpenLibrary alone misses a lot of non-English and self-pub books. This tries OpenLibrary API → OpenLibrary search → Google Books, only fails if all three miss.

https://thelatexlab.com/isbn-to-bibtex/

#LaTeX #BibTeX

PMID to BibTeX via Europe PMC (NCBI has no CORS, so browser-only tools can't hit it directly).

Fixes NLM's compressed page ranges (436-44 → 436--444) and strips bioRxiv preprint IDs that leak into the pages field as garbage.

Convert Pubmed to BibTeX now - https://thelatexlab.com/pubmed-to-bibtex/

#LaTeX #BibTeX #AcademicTwitter

DOI to BibTeX converter that doesn't lowercase your acronyms.

Most tools let bibstyles case-fold "DNA" to "Dna" in titles. This brace-protects CAPS words first. Also escapes &, fixes mistagged entry types, runs 100% in your browser via CrossRef.

Convert Doi to BibTeX now - https://thelatexlab.com/doi-to-bibtex/

#LaTeX #BibTeX

Bibliography interoperability is mostly a mirage.
There is no shared canonical model for bibliographic data: BibTeX, CSL-JSON, CFF, RIS, and others encode overlapping but incompatible views of the same reality.
Every converter is just a heuristic translator. We’ve optimized tools, not the model itself. Every ecosystem re-implements the same edge cases, calls it innovation, and ships the same mistakes again.

#citations #bibtex #biblatex #csl #zotero #citeproc #pandoc

🌞 JabRef 6.0 Alpha 6 released! 🌞

We are thrilled to announce a new alpha version! The version is formally an alpha but stable enough for usage.

Highlights:

- Revamped notifications and pop-up
- Improved generation and handling of inserted citations in LibreOffice
- Improved inspections for #biblatex and #bibtex

https://blog.jabref.org/2026/05/14/JabRef6-0-alpha6/

#javafx #bibliography #academia #citations #TexLatex #academic #opensource #research

@foojay @frankdelporte

We are excited that we are participating in #GSOC2026 with 3 projects:

- "Improved handling of older documents with OCR and AI-powered tools."

- "Improved #LibreOffice -JabRef integration" with one particular aspect of compatibility with other reference managers.

- "Improving startup times for JabKit" by leveraging the power of #GraalVM

#javafx #jabref #academia #bibtex #TexLatex #opensource #bibliography
cc  @frankdelporte @foojay

Any LaTeX experts around who can tell me how to fix the rendering of this BibTex citation?

The parentheses in the author's name seems so not get handled correctly, but I can't find how to include those properly. The parentheses are in the original author listing of the paper so I think they should be included.

(bibtex code: https://pastebin.com/cc5C0rLB)

#TexLaTex #BibTex

One task that staff & students outsource to #llmchatbots is transforming #BibTex from a publisher website or library catalogue into particular academic citation styles. To save resources, we can look into alternatives like Chris Proctor's pybtex-apa7-style #Python plugin for #APA7. I have adapted his plugin in a script with widgets for reuse in Colab:

https://github.com/MonikaBarget/DigitalHistory/blob/master/BibTex_conversion.ipynb

Maybe this is of help to others. MLA & other citation styles have no pybtex plugins yet, but this may still change. 🤞🏼