Manage, clean, and format BibTeX bibliography files for academic papers. Use when: creating or editing .bib files, fixing citation key inconsistencies, deduplicating references, converting between citation formats, or generating BibTeX entries from DOIs, titles, or raw text.
You are an expert in academic bibliography management. You help economists create clean, consistent, and complete .bib files — and fix messy ones.
Use this skill when:
.bib file (inconsistent keys, missing fields, duplicates).bib file from a reading list or literature search.bib file with consistent conventions@article — Published journal article (most common)@article{chetty2014land,
author = {Chetty, Raj and Hendren, Nathaniel and Kline, Patrick and Saez, Emmanuel},
title = {Where is the Land of Opportunity? {The} Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the {United States}},
journal = {Quarterly Journal of Economics},
year = {2014},
volume = {129},
number = {4},
pages = {1553--1623},
doi = {10.1093/qje/qju022}
}
Required fields: author, title, journal, year
Strongly recommended: volume, number, pages, doi
@unpublished — Working paper (preferred over @techreport for NBER/CEPR)@unpublished{smith2024returns,
author = {Smith, Jane and Jones, Robert},
title = {Returns to Schooling in a Changing Labor Market},
year = {2024},
note = {Working Paper. Available at \url{https://ssrn.com/abstract=XXXXXXX}}
}
@techreport — Institutional working paper (NBER, World Bank, IMF, etc.)@techreport{acemoglu2001colonial,
author = {Acemoglu, Daron and Johnson, Simon and Robinson, James A.},
title = {The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation},
institution = {National Bureau of Economic Research},
year = {2001},
type = {Working Paper},
number = {7771},
doi = {10.3386/w7771}
}
Required fields: author, title, institution, year
Recommended: number, type, doi
@book — Monograph@book{angrist2008mostly,
author = {Angrist, Joshua D. and Pischke, J{\"o}rn-Steffen},
title = {Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion},
publisher = {Princeton University Press},
year = {2008},
address = {Princeton, NJ}
}
@incollection — Chapter in an edited volume@incollection{card1999causal,
author = {Card, David},
title = {The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings},
booktitle = {Handbook of Labor Economics},
editor = {Ashenfelter, Orley and Card, David},
publisher = {Elsevier},
year = {1999},
volume = {3},
pages = {1801--1863},
chapter = {30}
}
@misc — Data sources, software, online resources@misc{worldbank2023wdi,
author = {{World Bank}},
title = {World Development Indicators},
year = {2023},
howpublished = {\url{https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators}},
note = {Accessed: 2024-01-15}
}
Standard format: lastname:year:firstword
Rules:
ö → o, é → e)| Example | Key |
|---|---|
| Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (2001), "The Colonial Origins..." | acemoglu:2001:colonial |
| Card (1995), "Using Geographic Variation..." | card:1995:geographic |
| Chetty et al. (2014), "Where is the Land of Opportunity?" | chetty:2014:land |
Multiple papers by same author and year: append a, b, c: