Sorry for the noise ... it seems like Jabref does have a way to solve this.
When looking at the bibtex source of an entry, you can right-click on the
'Author' field, and select 'Normalize to BibTeX name format'. Although not
perfect (there are some glitches) it works fine in most cases for most of
the author names.
However, it seems like it only works one entry at a time.
Can this action be scripted to work on a larger selection?
Thanks for listening :)
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Fernan Aguero <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem with how author names appear in bibtex files
> managed by jabref.
>
> Old versions of Jabref would write author names in a way that creates
> problems for natbib:
> {F}irstname {I} {L}astname and {F}irstname {G} {S}econdauthor and ... etc.
>
> This has been fixed, and now the latest betas do the right thing:
> {L}astname, {F}irstauthor {I} and {S}econdauthorlastname, {F}irstname {G}
> and ... etc
>
> Now, how do I fix databases that were generated with old versions of
> jabref?
>
> I see that there is a 'Clean up' option in the 'Tools' menu, which offers
> me a variety of automated actions to perform on selected entries ...
> however I can see how it would be difficult to fix how authors names appear
> solely based on the current (wrong) representation ... so perhaps the best
> way to do this is to re-issue a search & import action.
>
> Almost all my entries are imported from PubMed/MEDLINE, and so they have
> their own PMID unique identifier in the bibtex file.
>
> Is there a way to easily do this in jabref?
>
> If I could export all PMIDs, that would give me a way to batch download
> all entries, however this field is not present when I export my databases
> to .csv ... any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> fernan
>
--
fernan
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