When preparing a list of my publications, I had the wish to sort the publications in reverse chronological order. While this seems like quite a common task to me, I couldn’t find any BibTeX style that will do this trick. There is however the plainyr.bst style which is similar to the standard plain.bst BibTeX style, [...]

BibTeX is the standard bibliography format for scientific wordprocessing with LaTeX. This article introduces BibTool–a tool for processing BibTeX files. BibTool can be used to normalize the citation keys, to add, modify and remove fields, to search and extract certain BibTeX entries and much more. I will show a couple of examples of my uses of BibTool in this article.