A useful tool for EndNote + BibTeX users

While waiting for 2 manuscripts under review, a tool to repair the unusable BibTeX keys (RN+number) exported directly from EndNote was made. See this link for details:

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To run:

python endnote2bibtex.py

This code/GUI is to repair the unusable BibTeX keys (RN+number) exported directly from EndNote (I’m using EndNote X9).

The keys after repairs follow similar rules as the ones exported from Google Scholar (firstauthorlastname+year+titlefirstword).

It also

1. adds letter suffixes to repeated keys (e.g. peter1998researcha, peter1998researchb),

2. adds curly brackets to preserve original title and journal names, and

3. cleans DOI.

It only handles already-formatted BibTeX files exported directly from EndNote, and may report errors when trying to convert arbitrary BibTeX files.

Example:

My EndNote Library.txt is the raw output exported from EndNote X9. It contains the search result in Web of Science Core Collection database with these criteria: (year=2019 AND journal=JFM AND title>=turbulence) OR (year=2018,2019 AND journal=WRR AND title>=flood))

MyEndNoteLibrary.bib is the repaired output.

Before repair:

After repair: