pretybib is a tiny utility that checks some basic properties of you bibtex files, orders the entries in an alphabetical order and style them in a uniform way.

./prettybib.py --input=<bib_file> --output=<out_file>

The formated bibtex printed the <out_file> file, error messages on the standard error output. Missing fields which are required for the particular types of entries are assigned the TODO value.

If you toggle option --try-fix, it will try to find missing ISSN and other informations about journals (from DBpedia) or ISBN and other information for books (from Google Books).

All prerequisities are listed in the requirements.txt file.

• bibtexparser to parse and print bibtex
• libisbn to work ISBNs and Google Books
• SPARQLWrapper to query DBpedia
• termcolor to have colored error messages

The software is distributed under the BSD License.