BibTeX to CSV Converter

Convert LaTeX bibliography (.bib) files to CSV spreadsheet or JSON. Auto-decodes LaTeX accents to Unicode, handles nested braces. For researchers migrating citations to Zotero, Mendeley, or Excel.

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Exported from LaTeX, Zotero, Mendeley, Google Scholar • Max 10MB

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BibTeX to CSV Converter Tutorial

What is BibTeX?

BibTeX is the de facto bibliography format used with LaTeX. Each reference is an @type{key, field = value, ...} record. Every researcher has a .bib file; reference managers like Zotero and Mendeley export to it.

@article{smith2020deep,
  author = {Smith, John and M{\"u}ller, Karl},
  title  = {Deep Learning},
  year   = {2020},
  doi    = {10.1234/dl.2020}
}

Why Convert?

  • Excel/Sheets analysis — sort by year, filter by author, count citations
  • Bulk import elsewhere — reference managers that don't read BibTeX well
  • Share with non-LaTeX users — collaborators who just want a spreadsheet
  • Clean up bibliographies — find duplicates, missing DOIs

What Gets Extracted

20 columns for each entry:

entry_type, cite_key, author, title, year, journal, booktitle, publisher, editor, volume, number, pages, month, doi, isbn, issn, url, note, abstract, keywords
LaTeX Handling
  • Accented characters decoded: {\"o} → ö, {\'e} → é
  • Protective braces stripped: {NLP} → NLP
  • Em/en dashes, \&, \% normalized
  • @comment, @preamble, @string blocks skipped

Tested with

  • Zotero — Right-click collection → Export → BibTeX
  • Mendeley — File → Export → BibTeX
  • Google Scholar — "Cite" on any result → BibTeX link
  • ACM/IEEE/Springer/arXiv — all provide BibTeX citations