Export Bibliography to BibTeX Format — export

Converts bibliography entries from the database to BibTeX format for use with LaTeX and reference managers. Can export either document metadata (the papers themselves) or extracted citations (references from those papers).

Usage

export_bibtex(
  db_conn,
  document_ids = NULL,
  filename = NULL,
  source = c("documents", "citations")
)

Arguments

db_conn: Database connection or path to SQLite database file
document_ids: Optional vector of document IDs to export (default: all documents)
filename: Optional output file path (e.g., "references.bib"). If NULL, returns BibTeX string without writing to file.
source: What to export: "documents" exports metadata for the papers themselves, "citations" exports the references extracted from those papers (stored in bibliography field). Default: "documents".

Value

Character string containing BibTeX entries (invisibly if filename provided)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Export document metadata (the papers themselves)
export_bibtex(db_conn = "records.db", filename = "papers.bib")

# Export extracted citations from papers
export_bibtex(db_conn = "records.db", source = "citations",
              filename = "citations.bib")

# Export citations from specific documents
export_bibtex(db_conn = "records.db", document_ids = c(1, 5, 10),
              source = "citations")

# Get BibTeX as string
bib_text <- export_bibtex(db_conn = "records.db")
cat(bib_text)
} # }