[Tex/LaTex] getting rid of DOI URL etc fields in aipnum4-1.bst

bibtexdoiurls

I tried the solution suggested by Mico suggested in Getting rid of DOI, ISSN links from bibliography

but no luck I get error messages like

You can't pop an empty literal stack for entry ebbesenNature1998
while executing---line 3454 of file aipnum4-1DNA.bst
You can't pop an empty literal stack for entry srituravanicNanolett2004
while executing---line 3454 of file aipnum4-1DNA.bst
You can't pop an empty literal stack for entry PrzybillaJOptA2006
while executing---line 3454 of file aipnum4-1DNA.bst

and so on
when I replace the format functions in the .bst file by dummy functions like he suggests.

Note also that I prefer for the moment not to use biblatex

Can anybody suggest a way of how to modify the .bst file to get the desired behaviour?

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warning: not tested!

this answer is based on the file aipnum4-1.bst in tex live 2012, dated 2010-07-25.

there doesn't seem to be any explicit format.doi function, so it's a matter of figuring out what tag(s) to modify.

it may be as simple as removing the line doi from the list under ENTRY. (the documentation for this item isn't really clear in the manual -- texdoc btxhak.)

if this isn't enough, then change the lines

FUNCTION {add.doi}
{ }

to suppress its activation.

also, in FUNCTION {init.bib} there is a line init.bib.doi; removing that line might have a useful effect.

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[Tex/LaTex] Define bibstyle output hierarchy for doi, url, isbn and issn in BiBTeX

If you don't know too much about editing BST files, perhaps the declaration of the different publication types is the least error-prone way. At the very end of your testplainnat.bst-file you have functions for each doctype like:

FUNCTION {article}
{ output.bibitem
  format.authors "author" output.check
  author format.key output
  new.block
  format.title "title" output.check
  new.block
  crossref missing$
    { journal emphasize "journal" output.check
      eid empty$
        { format.vol.num.pages output }
        { format.vol.num.eid output }
      if$
      format.date "year" output.check
    }
    { format.article.crossref output.nonnull
      eid empty$
        { format.pages output }
        { format.eid output }
      if$
    }
  if$
  format.isbn output
  format.issn output
  format.doi output
  format.url output
  new.block
  note output
  fin.entry
}

So the interesting part is

  format.isbn output
  format.issn output
  format.doi output
  format.url output
  new.block

A IF-ELSE-Statement for "use doi or url or issn" looks like:

  format.isbn output
  format.doi empty$
  {
    format.url output empty$
    {
      format.issn output empty$
    }
    {
      format.url output
    }
  }
  {
    format.doi output
  }
  if$  
  new.block

I think you get the idea from this example. So basically it is

<value to test> empty$
{<run this cmd if empty>}
{<run this cmd if not empty>}

and a bit of nesting.

Of course you would need to repeat this for every doctype (like FUNCTION {book} etc.), but this is easier to handle than changing the format.* functions themselves.

(And this from someone that finds it easy to change bst files but has real issues adapting a biblatex style).

[Tex/LaTex] BibTeX Errors “the literal stack is empty” and “‘128’ is a function literal” with Optics Express Template

I have encountered the same problem and found a solution. When you use

\bibliography{/path/to/file/bibliography.bib}
\bibliographystyle{osajnl}

a file created your_article.bbl that includes error when you have a book reference in the bibliography.bib file. I don't know why and how, but here is a solution: look at your_article.bbl and fix the book references. Or, instead, use below in the your_article.tex file directly

%\bibliographystyle{osajnl}
%\bibliography{references}
\begin{thebibliography}{10}
\newcommand{\enquote}[1]{``#1''}
\bibitem{your_reference}
...
\end{thebibliography}

I hope this helps. At least it works for me.

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[Tex/LaTex] BibTeX Errors “the literal stack is empty” and “‘128’ is a function literal” with Optics Express Template

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