BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Exclude some Fields from appearing in the Bibliography

[nunder11]

I am using EndNote web to produce a bibtex .bib file. It contains a field called "Times Cited" which I don't actually want to appear in the bibliography.

I am using natbib with the plainnat bibliography style. At the moment the bibliography prints out fine but includes a Times Cited entry for each of the items in my bibliography.

I suppose one option would be to go in to the file and manually delete this field from each of the items, but wondered if there was some way to tell BibTex to exclude this field?

Thanks for your help

[frabjous]

Could you post an example item from this bib file? I don't think the field could literally be called "Times Cited" and work with natbib's plainnat!

[nunder11]

Thanks for the reply - you're right. I've looked and I attach a sample.

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@article{seidenfeld:85,
   author = {Seidenfeld, T.},
   title = {CALIBRATION, COHERENCE, AND SCORING RULES},
   journal = {Philosophy of Science},
   volume = {52},
   number = {2},
   pages = {274-294},
   note = {Times Cited: 10},
   year = {1985}
}

Seems like it's in a field called note. Any ideas how/if I can stop this printing out.

Thanks very much

[erickb]

You can use this tiny little awk script

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#!/usr/bin/awk -f
!/^[ \t]*note/

If you save it as, e.g., "cleanbib" and then run "chmod +x cleanbib" so that you can execute it, then you can run a command like this:

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$ cleanbib bib_with_notes_field.bib > bib_without_notes_field.bib

It works as long as all notes fields are printed out on a single line, as is done by, e.g., Zotero export (and possibly JabRef, etc.).

Best regards,
Eric