This is a very exciting find: a way to automatically generate a publications page on a WordPress blog from a bibtex file.
I’ve used Jabref to manage my own publication record for years now. Papercite pulls the most recent version of the Jabref database (a bibtex file) via a Dropbox link and automatically generates my publication page (see it in action here). Here’s the script in the WordPress page that does the work:
{bibtex highlight=”Michael Quayle|M. Quayle|Mike Quayle|Quayle|Quayle M.” template=av-bibtex format = APA show_links=1 process_titles=1 group=year group_order=desc file=https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ol9lo2rh52bo6c/1.MQPublications.bib?dl=1}
(Note: I’ve replaced the square brackets with curly braces so that the publications page doesn’t render in this post about the publications page; the curly brackets above need to be square brackets in order for the script to run.)
Now, when I update my bibtex record with new publications (which I would be doing anyway) my publications page automatically shows the most recent updates.
Fingers-crossed that this continues to work when Dropbox changes its web-rendering policy in September….