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Hi. Nice project. I have made a similar tool (not knowing yours existed), searchtobibtex.

1. Yours is more nicely written (mine is in bash)
2. You may wish to copy/take functionality (I am not sure but e.g. I have a pdf renaming tool)
3. Would you consider releasing it under a permissive licence? I may then consider contributing to your tool instead of developing searchtobibtex (or vice versa)

the "feedback form" link on the doi2bib page is 404.

Brillant code! Saves a lot of my time.

other.getElementsByTagName("person_name"):

This retrieves both authors AND editors. How can I get only the authors?

Thanks for this - very nice!
(1) I'm not sure why you include spaces surrounding the arguments of "{..}". This is not usual BibTeX style and I would omit them.
(2) I prefer first name before surname. Would be nice to have option for that.
(3) Could you add a doi field? Ironic not to include it.
(4) A very valuable feature would be to capitalize the title, as per BibTeX standards, which few publishers bother to do.

In some cases CrossRef may return only "full_title" field and empty "abbrev_title" field in journal information.
May be we should fallback to "full_title" if "abbrev_title" is empty?

Testcase: "doi2bib 10.1515/rnam-2014-0001" returns no journal name.

nelson beebe reports:

Here is an attempt with a bibliography that I just released today:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/aoap/1177005878

The texblog.org correctly redirects to the Project Euclid site,
but doesn't give me a BibTeX entry. What is generated earlier
today by bibliography merging is entry Marsaglia:1991:NCR in
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/annapplprobab.bib