[Journal] change of bibliography

Markus Neteler neteler.osgeo at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 08:14:39 EST 2007


On Nov 5, 2007 11:56 AM, Martin Wegmann
<wegmann at biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 04 November 2007 10:14:34 Markus Neteler wrote:
...
> > I wonder if it would be better to change from bibitem to real bibtex
> > for numerous reasons:
> > - bibitem painful while bibtex easy to write
> > - download bibtex from IEEE, Google Scholar, citeulike.org, ... nearly
> > everywhere
> >   (no handwritten bibitem stuff)
> > - make single bibliographic file like RNews does:
> > http://cran.at.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/
> > - syntax checking through bibtex
> > - easy style application to bibtex references
>
> good idea - shall we do it for no. 3 already or postpone it to no. 4?

If you need, there is a bibitem to bibtex converter which I used
to migrate our bibitem refs from GRASS Book 2nd edition to
bibtex for the new 3rd edition:

http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/entries/tex2bib.html

Best
Markus


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