The supported BibTeX structure
@ARTICLE{Kliewer66,
author = {Kliewer, K. L. and Koehler, J. S.},
title = {{Method for the Determination of the Surface Potential in Ionic Crystals}},
journal = {J. Appl. Phys.},
year = {1966},
volume = {37},
pages = {4592},
owner = {User}
}
author = {Kliewer, K. L. and Koehler, J. S.},
title = {{Method for the Determination of the Surface Potential in Ionic Crystals}},
journal = {J. Appl. Phys.},
year = {1966},
volume = {37},
pages = {4592},
owner = {User}
}
or
@ARTICLE{Kliewer66,
Author = {Kliewer, K. L. and Koehler, J. S.},
Title = {{Method for the Determination of the Surface Potential in Ionic Crystals}},
Journal = {J. Appl. Phys.},
Year = {1966},
Volume = {37},
Pages = {4592},
Owner = {User}
}
When Bibcut crashes ...
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Verify, if the BibTeX library is in a good shape: For instance, open the library with JabRef and look if JabRef outputs some errors (the line number is named for each error). Fix the errors and save the library with JabRef.
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For perfect libraries: Although this is quite rare it might happen that Bibcut crashes sometimes during processing BibTeX libraries, which are even perfect. This happens only with libraries, which contain especially very large text arrays in tags like 'abstract' etc. In this case it is advisable to 'clean' the library before applying any other procedure. The following steps might help:
- Open your library with Bibcut.
- Do not change the options for 'Clean tags'.
- Execute 'Clean tag'.
- Use the new BibTeX library for further use.
- If this does not help some manual work is needed: for instance, open the BibTeX library with an ASCII editor and search for very large texts. Shorten or remove large text passages.
Strange things appear in Bibcut created BibTeX libraries
Note: If strange things appear in Bibcut-created BibTeX libraries - like weird author strings - than it is mostly due to the original BibTeX library that already contains some wrong formatting! In this case, check the library with JabRef for instance or manually modify the original BibTeX library (editing in a text editor). In particular with Papers or Mendeley, strange things might appear in their BibTeX libraries.
'Cleaning'
'Cleaning' means to bring a BibTeX library into a better shape. The best way to 'clean' a BibTeX library are the following steps:
- Open your library with Bibcut.
- Open the options for 'Clean tags'
- Choose tags which you do not need. ('abstract' for instance)
- Execute 'Clean tags'
- Execute 'Clean characters'
- Execute 'Clean authors'
- Execute 'Clean doubles'
Advantages
Don't forget: you always have to read the log files and to verify all steps Bibcut has done!
- Very large libraries become much smaller in size!
- The library has no double entries anymore, and a large part of the author strings is in the form of: 'author = {Author1, A. and Author2, A. B., and Author3, A. B. C.}'.
Don't forget: you always have to read the log files and to verify all steps Bibcut has done!