Manage Bibliography

Create, merge, and deduplicate BibTeX bibliography files using R. This skill covers the full lifecycle of bibliography management: parsing existing .bib files into structured R objects, generating new entries from identifiers (DOI, ISBN, arXiv ID), merging multiple bibliographies with intelligent deduplication, and exporting clean, consistently formatted .bib output.

When to Use

• Creating a new .bib file for an R Markdown or Quarto project
• Merging bibliographies from multiple collaborators or sources
• Deduplicating a .bib file that has grown through copy-paste accumulation
• Generating BibTeX entries programmatically from DOIs or other identifiers
• Cleaning and standardizing an existing .bib file (consistent keys, sorted fields)

Inputs

• Required: Path to one or more .bib files, or a list of DOIs/ISBNs/arXiv IDs