BibTeX entry format and token names

The following illustrates a BibTex entry and its format. The name of each element is used as a DCG rule's predicate name.

"@" name "{" label ","
    field ","
    field ","
    ...
"}"

Each field's format is as follows:

key "= {" value "},"

Important fields

Fields like author and keywords have their own format. DCG rules for them are included here. However, consult the bibtex_fields library for more information.

Author value

The author field format is as follows:

`author "and" author "and" author "and" ...`

There are two possible formats for each author's name:

`surname "," name`
`name surname`

Keywords

Keywords are phrases written in the article. There are other fields that use the same syntaxs for user-defined keywords.

The format is the same:

`a_phrase "," a_phrase "," ...`

The keywords separators supported are "," and ";". They can be mixed.

Important terms

entry/3 is entry(Name: term, Label: string, LstField: list).
field/2 is field(Key: atom, Value: string). @author Gimenez, Christian @license GPLv3

entry(-Entry:pred)//

Return an entry/3 term corresponding with the codes parsed.

Arguments:

Entry - entry(Name:atom, Label:string, Lst: list).

See also

- field//2

field(-Key:codes, -Value:codes)// is det

Return the Key = Value field from a bibtex field.

fields(-Lst:list)// is det

Return a list of field/2 terms parsed from a bibtex fields string. Each element format is field(+Key: atom, +Value: string).

author(-Surname:list, -Name:list)//

Two types of author field's value:

Surnames, Names
Name Surname
Names Surname

authors(-Lst:list)//

Process a list of authors (i.e. author field value). Use it with a value string only.

Arguments:

Lst - is a list of author/2 terms: author(Surname:string, Name:string).

k_sep(?Char:char)

True iff char is considered as separators.

keyword_sep(-Keywords:list)//

True iff Keywords is a list of keywords parsed from the input. The separator should be one of k_sep/1.

Arguments:

Keywords

- a list of strings.

See also

- keyword_spaces//1

keyword_spaces(-Keywords:list)//

Retrieve all the keywords using spaces as separator.

Arguments:

Keywords

- is a list of string codes.