BIBCLEAN 1 "09 May 1998" "Version 2.11.4" [section 3 of 12]

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DESCRIPTION

bibclean prettyprints input BibTeX files to stdout, and checks the brace balance and bibliography entry syntax as well. It can be used to detect problems in BibTeX files that sometimes confuse even BibTeX itself, and importantly, can be used to normalize the appearance of collections of BibTeX files.

Here is a summary of the formatting actions:

BibTeX items are formatted into a consistent structure with one field = "value" pair per line, and the initial @ and trailing right brace in column 1.
Tabs are expanded into blank strings; their use is discouraged because they inhibit portability, and can suffer corruption in electronic mail.
Long string values are split at a blank and continued onto the next line with leading indentation.
A single blank line separates adjacent bibliography entries.
Text outside BibTeX entries is passed through verbatim.
Outer parentheses around entries are converted to braces.
Personal names in author and editor field values are normalized to the form ``P. D. Q. Bach'', from ``P.D.Q. Bach'' and ``Bach, P.D.Q.''.
Hyphen sequences in page numbers are converted to en-dashes.
Month values are converted to standard BibTeX string abbreviations.
In titles, sequences of upper-case characters at brace level zero are braced to protect them from being converted to lower-case letters by some bibliography styles.
CODEN, ISBN (International Standard Book Number) and ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) entry values are examined to verify the checksums of each listed number, and correct ISBN hyphenation is automatically supplied.

The standardized format of the output of bibclean facilitates the later application of simple filters, such as bibcheck(1), bibdup(1), bibextract(1), bibindex(1), bibjoin(1), biblabel(1), biblook(1), biborder(1), bibsort(1), citefind(1), and citetags(1), to process the text, and also is the one expected by the GNU Emacs BibTeX support functions.

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