Python implementation of bibtext to cff citation file converter

Convert bibtex citation files to cff file for compatibility with github citations

Installation:

• pip install bibtexparser==2.0.0b2

How to use:

• Use functions from citation_conversion_utilities.py.
• Example of how to use this in Example conversion.ipynb.
• Recommended to also include the original .bib file in the repo; Github's cff to bib conversion is not perfect.

Info about cff files:

• Github explainer & examples: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files
• Primer on cff files & create from scratch online: https://citation-file-format.github.io/
• Overview of cff software: https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/blob/main/README.md#tools-to-work-with-citationcff-files-wrench

Alternatives:

Given a bibtex file cite_source.bib that we want to convert to cite_target.cff.

Julia:

• Bibliography.jl

Then:

using Bibliography

imported_bib = import_bibtex("cite_source.bib")

export_cff(imported_bib["key"]; destination="cite_target.cff")

where "key" is the bibtex entry for that citation.

Note: if you get an ERROR: ArgumentError: input string is empty or only contains whitespace error, then it's likely because some required field (for cff) was not filled out in the bibtex. Find out which field is needed by seeing in the error message which line in cff.jl threw the error.