bib

bib

BibTeX references for your Go source code.

• Organize your references in standard BibTeX format
• Cite references in source code with [key] syntax
• bib will insert a bibliography comment with details of the citations in each file
• BibTeX formatter
• Generate templated output: for example markdown biblography for documentation
• Link checker for bibliography URLs

Install

go get -u github.com/mmcloughlin/bib

Usage

Suppose you have some comments that need to refer to external sources, such as the following real example from the crypto/ecdsa standard library package. Note the citations [NSA] and [SECG]:

// hashToInt converts a hash value to an integer. There is some disagreement
// about how this is done. [NSA] suggests that this is done in the obvious
// manner, but [SECG] truncates the hash to the bit-length of the curve order
// first. We follow [SECG] because that's what OpenSSL does. Additionally,
// OpenSSL right shifts excess bits from the number if the hash is too large
// and we mirror that too.
func hashToInt(hash []byte, c elliptic.Curve) *big.Int {
	orderBits := c.Params().N.BitLen()
	orderBytes := (orderBits + 7) / 8

Define these references in a BibTeX bibliography file.

@misc{NSA,
    title  = "Suite B Implementer’s Guide to FIPS 186-3 (ECDSA)",
    author = "NSA CSS",
    url    = "https://apps.nsa.gov/iaarchive/library/ia-guidance/ia-solutions-for-classified/algorithm-guidance/suite-b-implementers-guide-to-fips-186-3-ecdsa.cfm",
    year   = 2010,
}

@misc{SECG,
    title        = "SEC 1: Elliptic Curve Cryptography",
    author       = "Certicom Research",
    url          = "https://www.secg.org/sec1-v2.pdf",
    howpublished = "Standards for Efficient Cryptography 1",
    year         = 2009,
}

Include a comment starting References: in the source file where you would like the bibliography to be inserted.

// References:

Now run bib on the file.

bib process -w -bib references.bib source.go

This will edit the file to insert a bibliography, as follows:

// References:
//
//	[NSA]   NSA CSS. Suite B Implementer’s Guide to FIPS 186-3 (ECDSA). 2010.
//	        https://apps.nsa.gov/iaarchive/library/ia-guidance/ia-solutions-for-classified/algorithm-guidance/suite-b-implementers-guide-to-fips-186-3-ecdsa.cfm
//	[SECG]  Certicom Research. SEC 1: Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Standards for Efficient
//	        Cryptography 1. 2009. https://www.secg.org/sec1-v2.pdf

Additional Features

• Format BibTeX files with bib fmt
• Generate templated output with bib generate:
  • Markdown bibliography with bib generate -type markdown
  • Custom templates with bib generate -tmpl <template>
• Link check URLs in your bibliography with bib linkcheck command.

License

bib is available under the BSD 3-Clause License.