Crossrefware Bundle
version 2025-07-09
Scripts useful for working with Crossref, MathSciNet and Zentralblatt MATH.
bibdoiadd.pl - add DOI numbers to papers in a given bib file
bibzbladd.pl - add Zbl numbers to papers in a given bib file
bibmradd.pl - add MR numbers to papers in a given bib file
bbl2bib.pl - convert `thebibliography' environment to a bib file
biburl2doi.pl - convert urls pointing to doi.org to dois
ltx2crossrefxml.pl - create XML files for submission to crossref.org
Bug reports, source code:
https://github.com/borisveytsman/crossrefware
Releases:
https://ctan.org/pkg/crossrefware
These scripts rely on the bibtexperllibs libraries (replace
/crossrefware with /bibtexperllibs in the above urls).
For an example of using ltx2crossrefxml and associated code, see the
TUGboat processing:
https://github.com/TeXUsersGroup/tugboat/tree/trunk/capsules/crossref
Installation:
1. Move *.pl files to the binaries directory in your system.
2. Use *.cfg files as configuration files samples.
3. Move *.1 to the man pages directory in your system.
This work was commissioned by The Saint Louis University and
Princeton University (Mathematics Department). Thank you!
Changes:
2025-07-09 - Use entities in structured citation output;
avoid uploading unaccepted structured citations
2025-05-26 - Added processing of .bib files to get structured citations
2024-08-27 - output crossref schema 5.3.1:
https://www.crossref.org/documentation/schema-library/schema-versions/
(and update various doc urls that crossref broke.)
- more documentation on the bib*add scripts.
2024-01-31 - exit with bad status if no \end{thebibliography}.
2022-09-11 - add "*** " prefix to bib warnings.
2022-07-28 - find dev checkout of bibtexperllibs.
2022-05-25 - consistently output both sequence number and contributor role.
2022-11-01 - sort xml output by starting page, to be more or less stable.
2021-10-02 - version 2.51 released.
- changed TEXSELFAUTOPARENT to TEXMFROOT
2021-01-18 - all conversions moved from ltx2crossrefxml to LaTeX::ToUnicode.
- config file can provide a hook for processing.
2018/04/15 - Fixed a bug in bibzbladd
- Work around a bug in mathscinet
2017/11/26 - Switched to date-based versioning for the bundle.
- bbl2bib now converts urls starting with
http(s)://(dx.)doi.org to dois. This functionality
is also provided by a separate script biburl2doi
- bibadddoi now has the option to (not) canonize names
Version 2.2: We now treat absent CA permissively.
New debug options for bbl2bib
Version 2.1a: Bug in bbl2bib corrected
Version 2.1: New options to add empty doi and zbl when doi or zbl
are not found to prevent repeated searches.
Added bibmradd.pl
Added bbl2bib.pl
Version 2.0: Moved to BibTeX::Parser suite.
Now we use new Zbmath interface.
Now we use bibtexperllibs libraries
Version 1.1: workaround for a bug with macrons in TeX::Encode
