Some useful commands for writing and maintaining BibTeX files in Sublime Text 3
This packages provides basic commands for formatting and sorting the entries in BibTeX files. It also includes a command to fetch BibTeX entries from a DOI in the clipboard. BibTeX entries are formatted according to the settings, where all fields in each entry type and their order are defined. Apart from the default BibTeX fields some common BibLaTeX fields like doi, url, and addendum are supported out of the box. Additional fields and entry types can be added in the user settings.
BibTeXTools should be considered as a complement for LaTeXTools package, which already provides syntax highlighting for BibTeX files.
This package provides commands for the command palette and places the same commands in the right-click context menu. Both are however only enabled in views containing a .bib file.
| Command Palette | Context Menu | Description |
|---|---|---|
BibTeXTools: Format |
Format (Bibtex) |
Format the BibTeX entries in the current view. This will replace accents by proper LaTeX code, group entries and sort fields. Unnecessary fields are removed according to the settings. |
BibTeXTools: Sort |
Sort (Bibtex) |
Sort the BibTeX entries in the current view. Entries are grouped by their entry types and sorted alphabetically by their labels. There is no option to customize sorting at the moment. |
BibTeXTools: Fetch |
Fetch (Bibtex) |
Fetch a BibTeX entry from a DOI in the clipboard and place it properly formatted at the current cursor position. This command is heavily inspired by the doi2bibSublime package. |
| Key | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
"fields" |
see settings | List of fields per entry type. Their order is used to format entries. |
"indentation" |
"\t" |
Indentation of formatted BibTeX entries. If \t is used, Sublime Text 3 will replace it by spaces "Indent Using Spaces" is set. |
"case_sensitive" |
see settings | List of fields which are case sensitive and should be enclosed in additional braces. |
"accents" |
see settings | List of accents and their LaTeX-code replacements. |
"replace_url" |
true |
Replace or add URLs of the form "https://doi.org/...". |
"abbreviate_journal" |
true |
Replace journal names by an approximation of its ISO4 abbreviation. |
Although this should not be necessary, title word abbreviations can be configured using the BibTeXTools (Abbreviations).sublime-settings file. See the comments in the settings file for more details.
A simplified set of rules is applied to approximate the ISO4 standard: * articles, conjunctions and prepositions are omitted (except at the beginning) * commas are removed, other punctuation is preserved * diacritics are left as in the original title * words like Part, Series, Section should be omitted * single word titles (possibly with an article or preposition) are not abbreviated * abbreviated words are capitalized unless they are uppercase * uppercase words and acronyms are preserved
- doi2bibSublime by Dean Montgomery
- abbrevIso by Marcin Wrochna