BibTool resource file

.bibtoolrsc

% no tabs as indentation, line size very big
print.align.key = 0
print.use.tab = off
print.line.length = 200

% sort order for fields
sort = on
sort.order {* = title # author # school # type # year # month # day # journal # booktitle # publisher # volume # pages # shorttitle # url # urlaccessdate}


%
% Translate double quotes as delimiters "" by braces {}
%
rewrite.rule { "^\"\([^#]*\)\"$" = "{\1}" }
rewrite.rule { "# \"\([^#]*\)\"$" = "# {\1}" }
rewrite.rule { "^\"\([^#]*\)\" #" = "{\1} #" }
rewrite.rule { "# \"\([^#]*\)\" #" = "# {\1} #" }

%
% Semantic checks for year fields
%
check.rule { year "^[\"{]?[0-9][0-9][\"}]?$"   }
check.rule { year "^[\"{]?1[89][0-9][0-9][\"}]?$"   }
check.rule { year "^[\"{]?20[0-9][0-9][\"}]?$"   }
check.rule { year "" "\@ \$: Semantic error. Year has to be a suitable number" }

% Style Improvements.
%
% delete duplicate entries
check.double.delete = on

% delete empty fields
rewrite.rule {"^\" *\"$"}
rewrite.rule {"^{ *}$"}
rewrite.rule {"ˆ{}$"}
rewrite.rule {"ˆ\"\"$"}

% delete useless fields introduced by reference managers
delete.field {file}
delete.field {abstract}
delete.field {annote}
delete.field {keywords}

% correct page ranges
rewrite.rule {pages # "\([0-9]+\) *\(-\|---\) *\([0-9]+\)" = "\1--\3"}

% delete delimiters if the field is purely numerical
rewrite.rule {"^[\"{] *\([0-9]+\) *[\"}]$" "\1"}

%
% This resource file tries to introduce BibTeX strings for month names.
% Provisions are made to preserve other information contained in the
% month field.
%
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)january\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # jan # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)february\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # feb # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)march\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # mar # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)april\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # apr # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)may\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # may # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)june\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # jun # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)july\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # jul # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)august\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # aug # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)september\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # sep # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)october\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # oct # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)november\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # nov # {\2}" }
rewrite.rule { month
		= "^[\"{] *\(.*\)december\(.*\) *[\"}]$"
		# "{\1} # dec # {\2}" }

rewrite.rule { month = "^{ *} # " = ""}
rewrite.rule { month = " # { *}$" = ""}

% rename url date field to be correctly used by BibTeX, BibLaTeX, abnTeX etc
rename.field {urldate = urlaccessdate}