Texbib is a program that helps you to manage your BibTeX references.

To install bib use the following commands

pip install --user texbib

To add the contents of a BibTeX foo.bib file to the global bibliography type into a shell

$ bib add foo.bib

You can specify as many files as you want in a singe command. The entries in the bibliography can be addressed by the ID that is specified in the BibTeX file.

You can also add a reference via its DOI, either in the doi:… format or as URL starting with https://doi.org/.

$ bib add doi:10.1002/andp.19053220806

This will make a request to the crossref api.

Preprints from arXiv may be added similarly:

$ bib add arXiv:1306.4856

You can have a look at the references in the bibliography with

$ bib show

Later you probably want to create a new file with all the references in your document directory. Use the handy dump command for that.

$ bib dump
Wrote to default.bib

To remove a single item with ID foo2000 from the active bibliography

$ bib rm foo2000

You can group your references into bibliographies. To create one called myBib

bib init myBib

After creation it is your new active bibliography. Everything you add and remove will be applied to it instead of the default one.

To see what bibliographies exist and which is active

$ bib list
  default
* myBib

To change the active bibliography to an existing one use the checkout command.

$ bib checkout default

A bibliography can be removed with

$ bib delete myBib