https://sourceforge.net/p/chkbibitems/home/Home/Recent changes to HomeenSat, 06 Aug 2011 11:31:19 -0000https://sourceforge.net/p/chkbibitems/home/Home/<pre>--- v1 +++ v2 @@ -1,5 +1,22 @@ -Welcome to your wiki! - -This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage]. - -The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/chkbibitems/home/markdown_syntax/) syntax. +While it is straightforward to identify citations missing the associated reference (Latex will print a message), there is no easy way to check what references in the bibliography list are never used (cited) in the text. Chkbibitems will do that. + +It is a really simple application but I couldn’t find any other one that could do that (without installing perl). It is a command line utility and it is written in c# (.Net 2). It basically checks that for all \\bibtitem{X} latex command there exists, at least, one \\cite{X} command in the document body. + +To use it just open a DOS console and write: + +chkbibitems -v file.tex + +You will get something like: + +Cite found: Fra92 at (108:172) +Cite found: LMGM01 at (110:184) +Bibitem found: Fra92 at (142:0) +Bibitem found: FTJ01 at (144:0) +Bibitem found: LMGM01 at (146:0) +No cited reference found: FTJ01 + +The –v option is for verbose output. + +(108:172) means “line 108, colum 172”. + +If you have perl installed you could also try http://www.iac.es/sieinvens/siepedia/pmwiki.php?n=HOWTOs.CheckLatexBibliography or http://www-ljk.imag.fr/membres/Jerome.Lelong/soft/chklref/chklref_manual.html. </pre>Alberto SalgueroSat, 06 Aug 2011 11:31:19 -0000https://sourceforge.net8f79f47f10e53ef65da64b3d2fc42877eb0d6890https://sourceforge.net/p/chkbibitems/home/Home/Welcome to your wiki! This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage]. The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/chkbibitems/home/markdown_syntax/) syntax. Alberto SalgueroSat, 06 Aug 2011 09:39:38 -0000https://sourceforge.net4aa1651cadbda9529ab8c4e10776c0e77e9e337a