apa-stylebibtex
I have a substantial bibliography in APA format at the end of my dissertation proposal.
I would like to reformat the proposal into latex (Currently Google Docs), and I was wondering if there is a way to automatically generate bibtex from well formatted APA references.
Please advise.
You can try bibtex.online, it converts BibTeX to formatted text in many formats (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver...).
No installation is required since it runs in the browser.
Example:
You may want to try using the chapterbib package. (There's also the bibunits package, but since you state that your chapters are contained in separate .tex files, it may be easiest to proceed with the chapterbib package.) This package is designed to create bibliographies separately for each chapter, regardless of the number of bib files you have.
The following MWE demonstrates the usage of this package with a very basic setup. It loads the packages natbib, chapterbib, hyperref, and backref as well as the bibliography style file plainnat.bst. The file demo.bib contains:
@article{abadir:1993a,
author = "Karim M. Abadir",
title = "{OLS} bias in a nonstationary autoregression",
journal = "Econometric Theory",
year = 1993,
volume = 9,
number = 1,
pages = "81--93"
}
The "chapter" files demo-1.tex, demo-2.tex, and demo-3.tex each contain (they're identical):
\chapter{Hello}
\citet{abadir:1993a}\clearpage\citet{abadir:1993a}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{demo}
(Note that each chapter issues two citation calls.) The overall driver file, demo.tex, contains:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{natbib,chapterbib,hyperref,backref}
\begin{document}
\include{demo-1}
\include{demo-2}
\include{demo-3}
\end{document}
Run (pdf)latex twice on demo.tex; run bibtex once each on demo1.tex, demo2.tex, and demo3.tex; and run (pdf)latex twice more on demo.tex. The compiled document, demo.pdf, should contain 11 pages (4 pages each for chapters 1 and 2, and 3 pages for chapter 3). The typeset bibliography of chapter 3, on page 11, looks like this:
The back references for the bibliographies of chapters 1 and 2 should be "pages 1, 2" and "pages 5, 6", respectively.
You can, of course, adjust the appearance of the back references; see the manual of the backref package for details.
Best Answer
I have had luck with http://text2bib.economics.utoronto.ca/ for this sort of task (book chapters combined into a singe edited volume). It may also be possible to use Zotero (zotero.org), which can parse references into its own format and export bibtex.