[Tex/LaTex] Convert existing BibTeX to BibJSON

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I'm interested in converting my existing bibtex file (generated from Mendeley) into BibJSON format (http://okfnlabs.org/bibjson/), since it would be helpful for me for sharing and other integration purposes. Do you know of any code or script that can take in an existing BibTeX file (*.bib) and create the file in BibJSON format.

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You can use pandoc-citeproc, which is a part of the excellent pandoc program, to convert your .bib file to a .json file.

pandoc-citeproc --bib2json foo.bib > foo.json

But I doubt the output will be exactly what you need, because the specs you have linked seem to go beyond what pandoc offers.

UPDATE 2021: Citeproc is now integrated with Pandoc. Use something like: pandoc foo.bib -t csljson -o foo.json

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You should take a look at Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/welcome/), great free software. I'm not fully sure the function you're looking for is there, but there are elaborate options to share citation information with collegues (also in a hidden environment so only people you like can access :)

Please note that currently Elsevier owns Mendeley. They happily collect as much data as possible from Mendeley users. Keep that in mind when thinking of creating an account.

[Tex/LaTex] How to run bibtex without latex

Let us assume you have the following files/setup:

mybibstyle.bst
mybibliography.bib

Create a file myfile.aux containing the following:

\relax 
\citation{*}
\bibstyle{mybibstyle}
\bibdata{mybibliography}

This is literally the output from compiling the following minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{mybibstyle}
\bibliography{mybibliography}
\end{document}

Now run

bibtex myfile

which reads mybibliography.bib, myfile.aux and mybibstyle.bst and creates the file myfile.bbl containing the thebibliography environment based on mybibstyle.bst.

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