Yann Büchau :nixos:

Beginning to lose my mind again about #TeXLaTeX #BibLaTeX #BibTeX #Zotero fuckery. 😩

Zotero puts the "Extra" field from the GUI into the `annotation` field. This is happily ignored by biblatex. The quest begins, how to convince biblatex to *please* display my note on this preprint somewhere. All my attempts involving AtEveryBibItem or DeclareSourceMap pretty much in vain. LaTeX is so incredibly brilliant, but simple stuff like this can really kill you. Feels like :nixos: #NixOS 😅

#PhDLife

Asterisk

... und zur Hölle: Warum nicht längst #Markdown und #BibTex -Pflicht bei Einreichungen und #Pandoc -Pipelines für die Weiterverarbeitung?

... und ja, das Thema geht auch über Wissenschaft hinaus, aber hier nervt's mich besonders.
... und ja, hässliche "das nutzen nur Professionals" #UI mit grottiger #UX zählt da auch zu.

(3/3)

Yann Büchau :nixos:

@SeaFury How does one combine Zotero and email? 😅 I only use the Better #BibTex export.

#TexLaTeX

rhaen

Allright, good morning. Dear science and writers bubble, how do you deal with local toolchains for managing your library and archives?

I tried Zotero and had a look - *ugh* it requires cloud syncing for metadata and webdav for storage (or pay for it).

Is is really a combination of a local bibtex file in combination with archivebox?

Any feedback is highly appreciated! (boosting as well).

#bibtex #zotero #emacs #writing #writingcommunity #science

EikeZiegler

@ZBMED

1.schritt
#Literatur-daten als #bibtex und #cas-nr wären gut zu standardisieren

JabRef

Working on a scientific paper and need to quickly insert a citation?

If you’ve used #JabRef before, you might know the “push to application” feature. Now, JabRef supports cite-as-you-write (CAYW)! (Also known as “cite while you write”)

In #TeXstudio, press c three times to open the citation dialog—no plugin needed.

🛠 Setup guide:
👉 blog.jabref.org/2025/07/25/cay

Big thanks to @phlp for implementing this!

#AcademicWriting #BibTeX #TexLaTeX #CitationTools #GSoC2025 #OpenScience #ResearchSoftware

JabRef offers basic Cite As You Write (CAYW) functionality

Hello, I’m Philip, one of the Google Summer of Code…

JabRef’s Blog
Till Grallert

Almost in time for #DH2025 we are in the process of finalising a conftool extension providing #BibTex export for single presentations, entire panels or even the whole programme

Till Grallert

On my way back from the Franco-German summer school on “Open(ing) Science? Digital Humanities in Area Studies” co-organised by @kschluetter and @evaommert in #Leipzig. Thank you so much for bringing together such a great community of scholars working in and on languages and scripts beyond the Global North. Also a huge thanks for letting me run a workshop on plain-text editing and minimal computing!

#MultilingualDH #Markdown #Pandoc #yaml #bibtex #Zotero

recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/

Universität Leipzig: Open(ing) Science? Digital Humanities in Area Studies

recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de
Jul 11, 2025, 12:16 · · · 0 · 0
JabRef

🚀 Convenience update in JabRef: When fetching data via DOI, the most plausible year and entry type are now auto-selected.
🔍 Smarter defaults, less cleanup!

Details: github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/

Got ideas for better heuristics?

Comment here or open an issue on GitHub! -> github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues

#JabRef #ReferenceManagement #OpenSource #BibTeX

Improve merge logic to prefer valid year and entry type by ArshKumar84 · Pull Request #13506 · JabRef/jabref

Closes #12549 Added YearFieldValueValidityComparator…

GitHub
JabRef

JabRef has a new dialog for adding entries. It even automatically fills in the identifier from the clipboard. For the lazy people, one can also parse reference texts directly using AI.

Download the development build at builds.jabref.org/main/.

#JabRef #bibtex #AcademicMastodon

Jul 08, 2025, 14:15 · · · 1 · 0
Till Grallert

A question to the academic #HiveMind:

We are currently developing an extension to #ConfTool that will allow for the export of conference programmes as #BibTeX / #BibLaTeX . What would be your entry type of choice for otherwise unpublished conference presentations, posters etc.?

If you opt for “something else“, please provide your preference in a reply. Any comments are more than welcome.

#DigitalHumanities #DH #FieldSurveys

@NFDI4Memory @nfdi4objects @nfdi4culture @Textplus

Jun 12, 2025, 07:24 · · · 4 · 0
Christof Schöch

@BryanHogan

Curious about this, but please add a link to the post! (Also for later reference, when that post might not be at the top of your blog's landing page anymore.)

I'd recommend giving #Quarto a spin as well. It's also based on #Markdown + #BibTex, but is designed for academic long-form writing (e.g. with the "book" format).

Yann Büchau :nixos:

I sent @PLOS a mail with a fix for their #BibTeX style so that @misc entries (e.g. preprints) include a DOI (if any).

I always find it super frustrating when looking through a references list, then finding no DOI for an entry, when there definitely exists one - you see that the journal's bibliography style ignores DOIs for anything but @article etc. Don't really understand why.

Haven't had much success with other journals in this regard. We'll see if #PLOS is better 😀

#TexLaTeX #PhDLife

JabRef

Make #JabKit permanently available:

1. Install jbang: jbang.dev/download/
2. Execute "jbang app install jabkit@jabref"

Then, you can run "jabkit --help" and more.

Powered by JbangHub: jbang.dev/learn/jbanghub/

#jabref #bibtex #texlatex #jbang

May 16, 2025, 23:18 · · · 1 · 0
JabRef

Ever wondered whether your bibliography is conistent? Ever wanted to create a focused BibTeX file based on your LaTeX aux file? These features were available in JabRef's GUI. Now, they are available on command line:

jbang jabkit@jabref

Requirements: jbang via `brew install jbangdev/tap/jbang` or [other ways](jbang.dev/download/).

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#bibtex #texlatex #jabref #java #jbang #javafx