BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities â and intentions â of BibTeX. The possibilities of BibTool include
Pretty-printing of BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters.
Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful error messages.
Semantic checks can be specified by the user.
Sorting and merging of BibTeX data bases according to a free definable sort key.
Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined rules or according to an own specification.
Selecting references used in one publication which are found by analyzing an .aux file.
Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions).
Controlled rewriting of fields utilizing regular expressions to specify the rewriting rules.
Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string definitions.
Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases.