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bibcop(1)

bibcop1

Style checker and fixer of bibtex files (.bib)

Usage

bibcop [<options>] <.bib file path>

Overview

The bibcop tool is a Perl script for checking the quality of BibTeX bibliograph files (.bib) and automatically fixing found inconsistencies. It is not only a command line tool, but a LaTeX package, which can check the quality of a .bib file during the rendering of a LaTeX document. All found issues are reported as LaTeX warnings.

Options

Various options apply:

--version

Print the version of the tool

--help

Print the introduction screen

--fix

Autho-fix all issues and print a new content to the console

--latex

Print everything in LaTeX format

--verbose

Print debugging information too

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie)
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Author

Yegor Bugayenko ([email protected])

Bugs

Please log issues on the GitHub homepage: https://github.com/yegor256/bibcop/issues.

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