[texhax] help

[Schneider]

Mohamed:

> Is there a way to convert a simple bibliography file to bibtex data
> base fileieto an equivalent bib file?

I have a set of tools that do this for biomed papers:

http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/yvp.html

The yvp script takes the year, volume and page to locate the
corresponding entry in PubMed.  When one has a general reference, yvpg
will guess what the year volume and page are and call yvp.  This turns
out to be quite effective.

Given an entry in PubMed, mq and medlinebib will convert to bibtex.

There are some tools on the web that do this which may be more appropriate
for you.

google:
convert reference to bibtex
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=convert+reference+to+bibtex

picks up various methods, including
http://text2bib.economics.utoronto.ca/

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research
  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link)
  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link)