R: Convert BibEntry objects to BibTeX or BibLaTeX

toBiblatex {RefManageR} | R Documentation

## Convert BibEntry objects to BibTeX or BibLaTeX

### Description

toBiblatex converts a BibEntry object to character vectors with BibLaTeX markup. toBibtex will convert a BibEntry object to character vectors with BibTeX markup, converting some BibLaTeX fields and all entry types that are not supported by BibTeX to ones that are supported.

### Usage

    toBiblatex(object, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'BibEntry'
    toBibtex(object, note.replace.field = c("urldate",
      "pubsate", "addendum"), extra.fields = NULL, ...)

### Arguments

`object` | an object of class BibEntry to be converted
`...` | ignored
`note.replace.field` | a character vector of BibLaTeX fields. When converting an entry to BibTeX, the first field in the entry that matches one specified in this vector will be added to the note field, if the note field is not already present
`extra.fields` | character vector; fields that are not supported in standard BibTeX styles are by default dropped in the result return by the toBibtex function. Any fields specified in extra.fields will not be dropped if present in an entry.

### Details

toBiblatex converts the BibEntry object to a vector containing the corresponding BibLaTeX file, it ensures the name list fields (e.g. author and editor) are formatted properly to be read by bibtex and biber and otherwise prints all fields as is, thus it is similar to `toBibtex`.

toBibtex will attempt to convert BibLaTeX entries to a format that can be read by bibtex. Any fields not supported by bibtex are dropped unless they are specified in `extra.fields`. The fields below, if they are present, are converted as described and added to a bibtex supported field, unless that field is already present.

- date - The `date` field, if present will be truncated to a year and added to the `year` field, if it is not already present. If a month is specified with the date, it will be added to the `month` field.

- journaltitle - Will be changed to journal, if it is not already present

- location - Will be changed to address

- institution - Converted to `school` for thesis entries

- sortkey - Converted to `key`

- maintitle - Converted to `series`

- issuetitle - Converted to `booktitle`

- eventtitle - Converted to `booktitle`

- eprinttype - Converted to `archiveprefix` (for arXiv references)

- eprintclass - Converted to `primaryclass` (for arXiv references)

If no `note` field is present, the note.replace.field can be used to specified BibLaTeX fields that can be looked for and added to the note field if they are present.

BibLaTeX entry types that are not supported by bibtex are converted by toBibtex as follows "mvbook" = "Book", "bookinbook" = "InBook", "suppbook" = "InBook",

- MvBook,Collection,MvCollection,Reference,MvReference,Proceedings,MvProceedings,Periodical - to Book

- BookInBook,SuppBook,InReference,SuppPeriodical - to InBook

- report,patent - to TechReport

- SuppCollection - to InCollection

- thesis - to MastersThesis if `type = mathesis`, else to PhdThesis

- rest - to Misc

### Value

an object of class “Bibtex” - character vectors where each element holds one line of a BibTeX or BibLaTeX file

### Author(s)

McLean, M. W. mathew.w.mclean@gmail.com

### See Also

`toBibtex`, `BibEntry`, `print.BibEntry`

### Examples

    file.name <- system.file("Bib", "biblatexExamples.bib", package="RefManageR")
    bib <- suppressMessages(ReadBib(file.name))
    toBiblatex(bib[70:72])
    toBibtex(bib[70:72])

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