citebot

A helpful bot that tells you if you've missed citations in your astrophysics paper.

Installation

To install the citebot script, run

pip install citebot

or

python setup.py install

in this directory to get the development version.

Most of the heavy lifting will be done using the ads library so you'll need to make sure that you have your ADS API key set up properly by following the docs.

Usage

The assumption is that, if you're writing an astrophysics paper, you're probably using NASA ADS, and this code will only work if (at least some of) your BibTeX entries were exported by ADS. To get a list of recommended references, you can run

citebot /path/to/a/bibtex/file.bib

This will print a list of recommended citations to the terminal which is useful, but probably not exactly what you want. Instead, the best way to use this is probably to include the --upload argument to convert the recommendations to an ADS personal library:

citebot /path/to/a/bibtex/file.bib --upload name_of_the_library --clobber

where the --clobber command will overwrite an existing library with the same name (without asking).