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bibtex-hygiene
Clean, deduplicate and validate BibTeX/BibLaTeX bibliographies before submission. Use when a .bib file has duplicate keys or works, missing fields, broken DOIs, lost acronym capitalization (e.g. "bert" instead of "BERT"), inconsistent page dashes, arXiv preprints that now have published versions, or when LaTeX/biber emits bibliography warnings. Includes a zero-dependency linter and normalizer.
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# BibTeX Hygiene
A clean bibliography is a correctness issue, not cosmetics: duplicate entries inflate
reference counts, missing fields render as "?" in the PDF, lowercase acronyms signal
carelessness to reviewers, and a wrong DOI sends readers to someone else's paper.
## Workflow
1. **Lint.** Run the bundled linter on every `.bib` the manuscript uses:
```bash
python scripts/bib_lint.py references.bib
python scripts/bib_lint.py references.bib --json > bib-report.json # for programmatic triage
```