rebiber

Why we included this project

Anyone who writes papers in LaTeX knows the routine: you pull the arXiv entry for a paper, only to realize it was actually published at a conference, and your reference list is still pointing at the preprint. Rebiber fixes that in batch, matching your bibtex entries against official records from DBLP and the ACL anthology so conference papers point at the published venue instead of an unreviewed draft. It also normalizes citations to a consistent DBLP-style format, shortening conference names, dropping fields you don't need, and cleaning up duplicates and sorting. Recent versions added a useful safeguard that checks author overlap before replacing an entry, so a generic title won't be swapped for an unrelated paper, and dry-run and format-only modes let you preview the diff before committing changes. For ML and NLP researchers who keep a lot of citation files, this is a handy way to keep references correct ahead of a submission or camera-ready deadline.