bibtex-js can parse a BibTeX-file and render it as part of an HTML file. This way, you can easily add a list of publications to your private homepage or display a list of recommended publications for a seminar. The way the entries are display can be customized using a simple template system and CSS.

• Fast parser written in pure javascript (parser is in O(n))
• No setup required, drop-in solution

View a demo of this code at: http://mayhewsw.github.io/bibtex-js/, the code for which can be found in the gh-pages branch of this project.

Note: this project is originally from https://code.google.com/p/bibtex-js/.

Load javascript, add this to your html code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mayhewsw/bibtex-js/master/bibtex.js"></script>

Put bibtex input into a (hidden) textarea:

<textarea id="bibtex_input" style="display:none;">
@book{book1,
  author = "Donald Knuth",
  title = "Concrete Mathematics"
}
</textarea>

Output will be displayed in the element with id "bibtex-display", add this to HTML:

<div id="bibtex_display"></div>

That's it. Customize how publications are displayed using styles.

The default style can be specified explicitly by adding the following to your html code:

<div class="bibtex_template">
<div class="if author" style="font-weight: bold;">
  <span class="if year">
    <span class="year"></span>, 
  </span>
  <span class="author"></span>
  <span class="if url" style="margin-left: 20px">
    <a class="url" style="color:black; font-size:10px">(view online)</a>
  </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom:5px;">
  <span class="title"></span>
</div>
</div>

When class if is listed, the html element is only displayed if all fields listed as classes are present for an entry. Thus, the classes listed in <span class="if url"> cause the url related elements to only be displayed if an entry has the url field. For all other elements, the contents is replaced by the field-name specified as its class.

(c) 2010 Henrik Muehe. MIT License

Exported to Github and updated by Stephen Mayhew