bibtex-janitor

To clean a BibTeX file for economics journal submission, run the CLI on your references file to parse entries and apply a comprehensive pipeline that standardizes metadata, normalizes journal names, prunes unwanted fields, and validates entry types for a ready-to-submit output.

BibTeX field pruning removes unwanted metadata fields such as abstract, keywords, issn, and file from your bibliography entries. This ensures your economics journal submission contains only the necessary citation data without extraneous information cluttering the file.

NBER working papers are formatted by enforcing specific techreport standards within your BibTeX file. The cleaning pipeline identifies these entries and applies NBER-style formatting rules to ensure working papers meet economics journal submission requirements.

BibTeX cleaning removes URLs and DOIs from article entries but retains them for techreports and unpublished works. This selective URL and DOI handling ensures your economics bibliography adheres to standard journal formatting conventions for different entry types.

Yes, you can normalize journal names to their full formal names and apply title casing automatically. The cleaning pipeline also adds braces around acronyms and proper names in titles to preserve capitalization during LaTeX compilation.

Yes, bibtexparser is required as the parsing dependency to clean and validate your bibliography. It enables the pipeline to read BibTeX files, validate that required fields are present across articles, techreports, books, and inproceedings, and output a standardized file.