package doi2bib

doi2bib

Small CLI to get a bibtex entry from a DOI, an arXiv ID or a PubMed ID.

Usage:

$ doi2bib --help=plain
NAME
   doi2bib - A little CLI tool to get the bibtex entry for a given DOI,
   arXiv or PubMed ID.

SYNOPSIS
    doi2bib [OPTION]... [ID]

ARGUMENTS
    ID  A DOI, an arXiv ID or a PubMed ID. The tool tries to automatically
        infer what kind of ID you are using. You can force the cli to
        lookup a DOI by using the form 'doi:ID' or an arXiv ID by using
        the form 'arXiv:ID'. PubMed IDs always start with 'PMC'.

OPTIONS
    --help[=FMT] (default=auto)
        Show this help in format FMT. The value FMT must be one of `auto',
        `pager', `groff' or `plain'. With `auto', the format is `pager` or
        `plain' whenever the TERM env var is `dumb' or undefined.

    --version
        Show version information.

EXIT STATUS
    doi2bib exits with the following status:

    0   on success.

    124 on command line parsing errors.

    125 on unexpected internal errors (bugs).

BUGS
    Report bugs to https://github.com/mseri/doi2bib/issues

It will output the bibtex entry, using the published details when possible.

Examples of use (the bibtex entry is printed on standard output):

$ doi2bib 10.1007/s10569-019-9946-9
$ doi2bib doi:10.4171/JST/226
$ doi2bib arXiv:1609.01724
$ doi2bib 1902.00436
$ doi2bib PMC2883744

Each release comes with attached binaries for windows, mac and linux. If you want to build the package yourself, the most immediate way is by running

$ opam pin add doi2bib https://github.com/mseri/doi2bib.git
$ opam install doi2bib

To run the tests, clone this repository and from of the root of the project run

$ opam install --deps-only .    # first time only
$ dune runtest -p doi2bib

API references:

• DOI content negotiarion

• arXiv API