references_to_bibtex {TheOpenAIR}

Convert references in plain text to BibTeX format

Description

This function takes a character string or a file path to plain text references and converts them into BibTeX format. The function reads the input text, processes it, and returns a character string containing the references in BibTeX format. If a file path is provided, the function also writes the BibTeX entries to a .bib file in the same directory.

Usage

references_to_bibtex(references)

Arguments

references

A character string or a file path to a file containing the plain text references to convert.

Value

A character string containing the references in BibTeX format or, if a file path is provided, the function writes the BibTeX entries to a .bib file in the same directory and returns the file path of the newly created .bib file.

Author(s)

Ulrich Matter [e-mail]

See Also

https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex for more information on BibTeX format

Examples

## Not run: 
# Convert plain text references to BibTeX format
references <- "Doe, J., & Smith, J. (2020). The title of the paper.
Journal of Scientific Computing, 12, 45-67."
references_to_bibtex(references)

## End(Not run)