General ⇒ Bibtex | adding custom fields

[Servellen]

Dear All,

I need to make a bibtex file for general use, but i have too much information to export if just using the default fields. There is an extra field called "note" and I need to know if i can use this note field more than once, or if i need to fit all of the extra information into just one instance of this note field.

Will be very gratefull if anyone has the answer to this question, as I cant find it online anywhere.

Alternatively, would it be possible to make up field names, assuming they would be ignored by users not needing or supporting them?

thank you in advance,
Sander van Servellen

[gbravo]

Basically, you can add to a .bib file any field you need. They won't be included in the document (unless they are mentionned by your bib style).
For instance:

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@ARTICLE{key,
  author = {...},
  title = {...},
  journal = {...},
  year = {...},
  volume = {...},
  pages = {...},
  note = {...}
  comment1 = {...}
  comment2 = {...}
  ...
}

If you are using some reference software (e.g. JabReb) to manage your bibliography, it should already have some default comment field.

All the best,
Giangiacomo

[Alex B.]

I also highly recommend the open source software JabRef which not only has comment, abstract and review fields but also the nice feature of an entry field that is fit for the path to a pdf (or .djvu or .doc or whatever) file on your computer.

So if you have the electronic version of your document, you simply can click on the pdf symbol next to the entry title in JabRef and the related document opens instantly. Very useful!