A cleaning tool for Mendeley's BibTeX output.
BibTeX output produced by tools like Mendeley can be messy. The same journal is referred to by different name variants, there is a mixture of LaTeX escapes and native unicode, etc. Mendelint tries to clean up the output by unifying journal names, and converting all LaTeX escapes to unicode code points or vice versa. Additionally, it can truncate author lists to a given length.
The output of Mendelint is twofold:
mendelint strings short -o short.bib
produces a file with a @string entry for each known journal, mapping to the short (abbreviated) variant of that name.
The main cleaning is done by the clean command:
mendelint clean -o clean.bib library.bib
cleans the library.bib file and writes the output to clean.bib.
Both files are needed because clean.bib contains only string references instead of the actual journal names.
The output can be included into a TeX file like this:
\bibliography{short,clean}To get the same bibliography with long names, replace short.bib with long.bib generated by
mendelint strings long -o long.bib
Mendelint supports input and output piping by specifying - as the input or output file.
All warnings are printed to stderr.