Bibtex to Markdown Converter

📚 Easily import publications from your reference manager to your Markdown-formatted website or book

Features

• Import Bibtex publications (such as books, conference proceedings and journals) from your reference manager to your Markdown-formatted website or book
  • Simply export a BibTeX file from your reference manager, such as Zotero, and provide this as the input to the converter tool
• Compatible with all static website generators such as Next, Astro, Gatsby, Hugo, etc.

Community

• 📚 View the documentation and usage guide below
• 💬 Chat with the Wowchemy community or Hugo community
• 🐦 Twitter: @wowchemy @GeorgeCushen #MadeWithAcademic

❤️ Support this open-source software

To help us develop this converter tool and the associated Wowchemy software sustainably under the MIT license, we ask all individuals and businesses that use it to help support its ongoing maintenance and development via sponsorship and contributing.

Support development of the Academic CLI:

• ❤️ Become a GitHub Sponsor and unlock perks
• ☕️ Donate a coffee
• 👩‍💻 Contribute

Prerequisites

1. Install Python 3.11+ if it’s not already installed

For Building a Website with Hugo (Optional)

1. Create a Hugo website such as by using the Hugo Academic Starter template for the Wowchemy website builder
2. Download your site from GitHub, installing Hugo and its dependencies
3. Version control your website
   • Ideally, version control your site with Git so that you can review the proposed changes and accept or reject them without risking breaking your site
   • Otherwise, if not using Git, backup your site folder prior to running this tool

Installation

Open your Terminal or Command Prompt app and install the Academic CLI tool:

pip3 install -U academic

Or, help test the latest development version:

pip3 install -U git+https://github.com/wowchemy/hugo-academic-cli.git

Usage

Download references from your reference manager, such as Zotero, in the Bibtex format.

Use the cd command to navigate to the folder containing your Bibtex file:

cd <MY_BIBTEX_FOLDER>

Import publications:

Say we downloaded our publications from our reference manager, such as Zotero, to a file named my_publications.bib within the website folder. We can import them into the default content/publication/ folder with:

academic import --bibtex my_publications.bib

Import publications to a specific folder (e.g. content/zh/publication):

Say our site has multiple languages, we may want to output the publications to a specific folder with:

academic import --bibtex my_publications.bib --publication-dir content/zh/publication/

Optional arguments:

• --publication-dir PUBLICATION_DIR Folder to import publications to (defaults to content/publication)
• --overwrite Overwrite any existing publications in the output folder
• --normalize Normalize tags by converting them to lowercase and capitalizing the first letter (e.g. "sciEnCE" -> "Science")
• --featured Flag these publications as featured (to appear in Featured Publications widget)
• --verbose or -v Show verbose messages
• --help Help

After importing publications, a full text PDF and image can be associated with each item and further details added via extra parameters.

Contribute

Interested in contributing to open source and open science?

Learn how to contribute code on Github.

Check out the open issues and contribute a Pull Request.

For local development, clone this repository and use Poetry to install and run the converter using the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/wowchemy/bibtex-to-markdown.git
cd bibtex-to-markdown
poetry install
poetry run academic import --bibtex=tests/data/article.bib --publication-dir=debug --overwrite

Preparing a contribution:

• Lint: make lint
• Format: make format
• Test: make test

License

Copyright 2018-present George Cushen.

Licensed under the MIT License.