Astronomy latex bibliography tools

apj_style.bst

A customised version of the natbib style abbrvnat.bst, replicating several features of the ApJ bibtex style.

Usage is:

\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{apj_style}

The differences are:

1. Authors have surnames first
2. Titles are not shown
3. Journal links to DOI (color: rhodamine)
4. Volume, pages link to ADS (color: blue)
5. A limit of 5 authors is shown, first author + et al. is shown if more

Linking only the year of each inline reference to the full reference in the reference section can be acheived by adding the following to the .tex file:

% Patch so only year is linked
\makeatletter
% Patch case where name and year have no delimiter
\patchcmd{\NAT@citex}
    {\@citea\NAT@hyper@{\NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}\NAT@date}}
    {\@citea\NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}\NAT@hyper@{\NAT@date}}
    {}% Do nothing if patch works
    {}% Do nothing if patch fails
% Patch case where name and year have basic delimiter
\patchcmd{\NAT@citex}
    {\@citea\NAT@hyper@{%
         \NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}%
         \hyper@natlinkbreak{\NAT@aysep\NAT@spacechar}{\@citeb\@extra@b@citeb}%
         \NAT@date}}
    {\@citea\NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}%
     \NAT@aysep\NAT@spacechar%
     \NAT@hyper@{\NAT@date}}
    {}% Do nothing if patch works
    {}% Do nothing if patch fails
% Patch case where name and year are separated by a prenote
\patchcmd{\NAT@citex}
    {\@citea\NAT@hyper@{%
         \NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}%
         \hyper@natlinkbreak
         {\NAT@spacechar\NAT@@open\if*#1*\else#1\NAT@spacechar\fi}%
         {\@citeb\@extra@b@citeb}%
         \NAT@date}}
    {\@citea\NAT@nmfmt{\NAT@nm}%
        \NAT@spacechar\NAT@@open\if*#1*\else#1\NAT@spacechar\fi%
        \NAT@hyper@{\NAT@date}}
    {}% Do nothing if patch works
    {}% Do nothing if patch fails
\makeatother

apj_style.bbx

A customised version of the biblatex style biblatex-phys.bbx, replicating several features of the ApJ bibtex style.

Usage is:

\usepackage[
  backend=biber,
  backref=true,
  bibstyle=apj_style,
  citestyle=authoryear-comp,
  ]{biblatex}

pdftobib

A script that parses a given directory of PDF files (typically journal articles) and produces a file (default articles.bib) containing bibtex entries for all PDF files successfully processed.

This is specifically targeted at astrophysics papers. doi and url fields are returned with each bibtex entry, allowing for hyperlinking using apj_style.bst or apj_style.bbx.

Usage is:

pdftobib [DIRECTORY (default: .)] [--bibtex_file FILE (default: articles.bib)]

mnbib

Prepares a large .bib file for submission by parsing the .bbl produced and copying only the used entries into a new .bib file. Also adds arXiv identifiers to an arxiv journal tag if the entry is an arXiv preprint.