3.3 KiB
BibTeX layer
Description
BibTeX and BibLaTeX files are a common way to manage bibliographies. The format was original designed to work with LaTeX files and subsequently has been adopted by other markup formats such as MarkDown and Org mode.
This layer adds support to manipulate BibTeX and BibLaTeX files in Spacemacs.
Features:
- Syntax highlighting for BibTeX and BibLaTeX files.
- Utilities for automatically adding entries from different data sources.
- Support for inserting citations in various other modes.
Install
To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs
. You will need to
add bibtex
to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
list in this
file.
Configuration
This layer also supports having a global BibTeX file. For a basic
configuration, add this to your ~/.spacemacs
inside
dotspacemacs/user-config
:
(setq org-ref-default-bibliography '("~/Papers/references.bib")
org-ref-pdf-directory "~/Papers/"
org-ref-bibliography-notes "~/Papers/notes.org")
Certain modes, such as latex-mode
with AucTeX, will automatically lookup
references in a document if any of the recognized bibliography commands are
used. Other modes may have a similar feature, or one could always set
file-local variables (through SPC f v f
).
You can also customize which program is used to display the PDFs. For example, to use Zathura:
(setq org-ref-open-pdf-function
(lambda (fpath)
(start-process "zathura" "*helm-bibtex-zathura*" "/usr/bin/zathura" fpath)))
More configuration options are available and are detailed in the org-ref
and
helm-bibtex
package documentations.
Key bindings
In a Bib(La)TeX file, the following key bindings are added:
Key binding | Description |
---|---|
SPC m j / g j / C-j |
Next entry |
SPC m k / g k / C-k |
Previous entry |
SPC m p |
Open PDF |
SPC m n |
Open notes |
SPC m b |
Open browser |
SPC m i |
Insert new entry |
SPC m s |
Sort entry |
SPC m h |
Various actions on entry |
SPC m l a |
Lookup and add arXiv paper (don’t get PDF) |
SPC m l A |
Lookup and add arXiv paper (download PDF) |
SPC m l d |
Lookup and add paper by DOI |
SPC m l i |
Lookup and add book by ISBN |
SPC m l p |
Lookup and add paper by PMID |
In addition, org-mode
, latex-mode
and markdown-mode
all have the following
key binding added:
Key binding | Description |
---|---|
SPC m i c |
Insert citation |