Cleaning up the bibliography

Sometimes you get some weird errors while processing the bibliography file, most specially when it was exported from Mendeley or Zotero, such as

Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence

You may clean the bibliography file with the following python3 script from David Magalhães Sousa ([email protected])

https://github.com/joaomlourenco/novathesis-extras/raw/main/Scripts/ntcleanbib.py

For example, to create a file clean.bib from a dirty file dirty.bib do:

python ntcleanbib.py -i dirty.bib -o clean.bib

Exporting from Mendeley

Bibliography exported from Mendeley may have invalid characters in the cite key, namely "(" and ")". If you run the script with the addition option -k, it will also replace those invalid characters with "_".

python ntcleanbib.py -k -i dirty.bib -o clean.bib