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I want to be able to process my CV LaTeX file and know that it has a nice list of all of my publications. I keep my global .bib file updated with all sorts of publications I'm interested in, and my own publications. I don't want to manually insert my publications into my .bib file AND to my CV LaTeX file.

How can I automatically create a publication list for a certain author?

Ideally I'd use \cite{author=my_name} and have all of my publications.

lockstep
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Yakir Gagnon
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  • Hi Yakir, Welcome to TeX.sx! I've removed the thanks, which is just the style here. Thanks is best expressed in the upvoting of answers that you find helpful. – qubyte Mar 06 '12 at 06:28
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    This may be tricky, as it is common for BibTeX entries to use different strings between publications. i.e. my name may appear as author = {Everitt, Mark S. and... or author = {Everitt, M. and.... In many cases an author's family name will not be unique in your database as well. – qubyte Mar 06 '12 at 07:13
  • With biblatex and bibtex, this is relatively straightforward to do. With biblatex and biber, it's probably even easier using the biber sourcemap option. – Audrey Mar 06 '12 at 15:05

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For this purpose, I usually employ bib2bib to automatically extract all own publications into an ownpubs.bib, which I then use in my CV with \cite{*}.

The bib2bib utility is part of the bibtex2html tool suite. (Note: you have to look for the PDF documentation, the HTML documentation does not discuss bib2bib!). Under Linux, it is usually preinstalled, on MacOS it is available via MacPorts, for Windows binaries are provided. The command line:

bib2bib -s 'year' -r --expand -c 'author : "Gagnon" or editor : "Gagnon"' -ob ownpubs.bib all.bib

extracts all entries with Gagnon part of in the author or the editor list from all.bib to the new file ownpubs.bib

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  • This looks nice, but it will be a problem for the likes of me because I have a very similar name to another guy who has papers that are in my collection. :( – qubyte Mar 06 '12 at 10:38
  • @MarkS.Everitt: In that case you need to be a bit more sepecific with the filter, for instance, by including your first name or excluding certain co-authors. The bib2bib documentation has a couple of examples for the respective regular expressions. – Daniel Mar 06 '12 at 11:54
  • That sounds more sophisticated than I imagined then. I'll take a look! – qubyte Mar 06 '12 at 11:59
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The easiest answer, provided that you use some kind of bibliography management system, is to keep a tag for your own publications. I use CiteULike for example, and it automatically does this when you tell it that a paper is one you (co)authored. You can then ask for a .bib file with only papers tagged as your own. With the .bib file with just your articles, a simple \nocite{*} in your document will get BibTeX to use all entries in the file for the Bibliography.

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A quasi-automatic way is to use emacs+reftex. You can search on your name and then insert all entries that match (if you have name clashes, you just need to be more clever with your regular expression).

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