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Journal Field Stripper

Clean .bib files by removing unwanted fields before journal submission

All Citation & References
BibTeX input
Output
Output will appear here…
How it works

Reference managers (Zotero, Mendeley, JabRef) export many extra fields — abstract, file, keywords, etc. — that journal submission systems reject or that bloat shared .bib files.

This tool keeps only the fields that are standard for each entry type. The defaults follow the official BibTeX specification. Override them with the custom field list above.

Default keep lists:

article: author, title, journal, year, volume, number, pages, doi, url
book: author, editor, title, publisher, year, address, edition, doi, isbn, url
inproceedings: author, title, booktitle, year, pages, publisher, address, doi, url
incollection: author, title, booktitle, publisher, year, pages, editor, doi, url
phdthesis: author, title, school, year, address, url
mastersthesis: author, title, school, year, address, url
techreport: author, title, institution, year, number, url
misc: author, title, year, howpublished, url, note
unpublished: author, title, note, year, url