Re: [Jabref-users] control which fields JabRef exports to a bbl file

[Peter R. <p.r...@sh...>]

On 07/01/15 22:00, Michael A. Morrison wrote:
> control which fields JabRef exports to a bbl file
>
> Hi,
>
> I’mrelativelynew to JabRef and am unclear about how to control which 
> of the fieldsin a given entrywillactuallybe exported to the BibTeX in 
> the *.bbl file created by JabRef. For example, downloading citations 
> from most journal cites directly into JabRefautomaticallyfills in the 
> url field(and often the Doi field)in the General tab in the entry 
> editor. When I run BibTeX with a standard bst file (e.g., the onefor 
> the American Physical Society), the resulting LaTeX bibliography 
> contains the url even though the APS does not want it included in the 
> bibliography environmentI submit to the journal. The obvious way to 
> solvethe problem is to edit, by hand, every entry in thebibliography 
> environment before I submit the paper. This seems extremely 
> inefficient.  Another obvious solution would be to editevery entry in 
> JabRefand remove theinformationin the url(and other unwanted fields, 
> such as Doi)  before I run BibTeX to generate the bibliography I will 
> then paste into the LaTeX file I’ll submit to the journal. This 
> seemsanunsatisfactory solution, not onlybecauseit would be very 
> tedious with a long bibliography (e.g., for a review article) but also 
> because I would like to keep that information for future use in other 
> circumstances. Is there a way, within JabRef, to tellcontrolwhich 
> fields to include in the BibTeX it generates and which to leave out? 
> (I thought the Entry Export editor was the answer, but studying the 
> information I could find on line suggests that it’s not.) Thanks very 
> much.--- michael
>
> Michael Morrison
>
>
Michael

If you get an answer to this I (and I, suspect, many others) will be 
delighted! But having looked at this before at length, I think the 
consensus is that this is a deficiency of the bst file you are using, 
and not JabRef.  I routinely create a paper-specific bib file so I can 
do things like deleting unwanted fields that the (often 
publisher-supplied!) bst file insists on including.

One other option, which has just occurred to me and hence haven't tried, 
is to run sed (or a similar stream editor) on the bbl file to comment 
out "\newblock URL \url{" fields. If you use an IDE like TexStudio, I 
think it should be possible to automate this using the Macros facility?

Peter