I was wondering if the members of the community would kindly share their wisdom in what is the best way to get BibTeX entries from ISBN number? I am currently using
this service but results leave much to be desired for. Before I start writing a script which will fix all "imperfection" of the above service is there a better way to get BibTeX references from ISBN? In particular I am interested in web-sites which scale well because I would just like to get BibTeX reference of the web with the script and be done with it.
[Tex/LaTex] the best way to get BibTeX entries from ISBN number
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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:
This is very easy with biblatex (at least as long one takes care of closing commas in .bib files):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@book{QueueSystems,
author = "Leonard Kleinrock",
maintitle = "Queueing Systems",
volume = "1",
title = "Theory",
publisher = "Wiley-Interscience",
year = "1975",
ISBN = "0471491101",
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\nocite{*}
\begin{document}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
For more information about "first steps" with biblatex see What to do to switch to biblatex?
Best Answer
Did you try Lead2Amazon?
Select
BibTeX, enter your ISBN, and click on "set and search" -- done.Sometimes you need to try other Amazon sites, e.g. when searching books of Herbert Voss ...