Hayagriva

Rusty bibliography management.

Hayagriva is a tool that can help your or your apps deal with literature and other media. Its features include:

• Data structures for literature collections
• Reading and writing said collections from YAML files
• Formatting literature into reference list entries and in-text citations as defined by popular style guides
• Interoperability with BibTeX
• Querying your literature items by type and available metadata

Hayagriva can be used both as a library and as a Command Line Interface (CLI). Skip to the section "Usage" for more information about usage in your application or to the section "Installation" to learn about how to install and use Hayagriva on your terminal.

Supported styles

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • References
  • Numerical citations
• Modern Language Association (MLA), 8th edition of the MLA Handbook
  • "Works Cited" references
• Chicago Manual of Style (CMoS), 17th edition
  • Notes and Bibliography
  • Author-Date references and citations
• American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual
  • References
• Other in-text citation styles
  • Alphanumerical (e. g. "Rass97")
  • Author Title

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
hayagriva = "0.3"

Below, there is an example of how to parse a YAML database and get a Modern Language Association-style citation.

use hayagriva::io::from_yaml_str;
use hayagriva::style::{Database, Mla};

let yaml = r#"
crazy-rich:
    type: Book
    title: Crazy Rich Asians
    author: Kwan, Kevin
    date: 2014
    publisher: Anchor Books
    location: New York, NY, US
"#;

// Parse a bibliography
let bib = from_yaml_str(yaml).unwrap();
assert_eq!(bib[0].date().unwrap().year, 2014);

// Format the reference
let db = Database::from_entries(bib.iter());
let mut mla = Mla::new();
let reference = db.bibliography(&mut mla, None);
assert_eq!(reference[0].display.value, "Kwan, Kevin. Crazy Rich Asians. Anchor Books, 2014.");

Formatting for in-text citations is available through implementors of the hayagriva::style::CitationStyle trait whereas bibliographies can be created by hayagriva::style::BibliographyStyle. Both traits are used through style::Database which provides methods to format its records as bibliographies and citations.

If the default features are enabled, Hayagriva supports BibTeX and BibLaTeX bibliographies. You can use io::from_biblatex_str to parse such bibliographies.

Should you need more manual control, the library's native Entry struct also offers an implementation of the From<&biblatex::Entry>-Trait. You will need to depend on the biblatex crate to obtain its Entry. Therefore, you could also use your BibLaTeX content like this:

use hayagriva::Entry;
let converted: Entry = your_biblatex_entry.into();

If you do not need BibLaTeX compatibility, you can use Hayagriva without the default features by writing this in your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
hayagriva = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }

Selectors

Hayagriva uses a custom selector language that enables you to filter bibliographies by type of media. For more information about selectors, refer to the selectors.md file. While you can parse user-defined selectors using the function Selector::parse, you may instead want to use the selector macro to avoid the run time cost of parsing a selector when working with constant selectors.

use hayagriva::select;
use hayagriva::io::from_yaml_str;

let yaml = r#"
quantized-vortex:
    type: Article
    author: Gross, E. P.
    title: Structure of a Quantized Vortex in Boson Systems
    date: 1961-05
    page-range: 454-477
    doi: 10.1007/BF02731494
    parent:
        issue: 3
        volume: 20
        title: Il Nuovo Cimento
"#;

let entries = from_yaml_str(yaml).unwrap();
let journal = select!((Article["date"]) > ("journal":Periodical));
assert!(journal.matches(&entries[0]));

There are two ways to check if a selector matches an entry. You should use [Selector::matches] if you just want to know if an item matches a selector and [Selector::apply] to continue to work with the data from parents of a matching entry. Keep in mind that the latter function will return Some even if no sub-entry was bound / if the hash map is empty.

Installation

Run this in your terminal:

cargo install hayagriva --features cli

Cargo will install the Hayagriva Command Line Interface for you. Now, you just need a Hayagriva YAML literature file or a Bib(La)TeX file to get started. The Hayagriva YAML file is intuitive to write and can represent a wealth of media types, learn how to write one in its dedicated documentation.

Suppose you have this file saved as literature.yml in your current working directory:

dependence:
    type: Article
    title: The program dependence graph and its use in optimization
    author: ["Ferrante, Jeanne", "Ottenstein, Karl J.", "Warren, Joe D."]
    date: 1987-07
    doi: "10.1145/24039.24041"
    parent:
        type: Periodical
        title: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
        volume: 9
        issue: 3

feminism:
    type: Article
    title: She swoons to conquer
    author: Ungard-Sargon, Batya
    editor: Weintraub, Pam
    date: 2015-09-25
    url: https://aeon.co/essays/can-you-enjoy-romance-fiction-and-be-a-feminist
    parent:
        type: Blog
        title: Aeon

You can then issue the following command to get reference list entries for both of these articles.

hayagriva literature.yml reference

Hayagriva defaults to the Author-Date style of the Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition). If you prefer to use another style, you can, for example, do the following to use the style of the American Psychological Association instead:

hayagriva literature.yml reference --style apa

Available values for the --style argument can be viewed by calling hayagriva help reference.

If you now need an in-text citation to the second article in the above file, you can call:

hayagriva literature.yml cite --key feminism

The --key takes a comma-separated list of keys (or a single one). The sub-command will then only work on the specified keys. Just like the reference sub-command, the cite command also allows the --style argument. Its possible values can be viewed with hayagriva help cite. It will default to the Author Date style.

Instead of the --key argument, you can also use --select to provide a custom Hayagriva selector. For example, you could run the following to only reference entries that have a URL or DOI at the top level:

hayagriva literature.yml --select "*[url] | *[doi]" reference

This expression would match both entries in our example and therefore the command would return the same result as the first reference command.

Hayagriva also allows you to explore which values were bound to which sub-entries if the selector matches. This is especially useful if you intend to consume Hayagriva as a dependency in your application and need to debug an expression. Consider this selector which always binds the sub-entry with the volume field to a, regardless of if it occurred at the top level or in the first parent: a:*[volume] | * > a:[volume]. You can then use the command below to show which sub-entry the selector bound as a for each match:

hayagriva literature.yml --select "a:*[volume] | * > a:[volume]" --show-bound

The --show-bound flag shows all keys matching the selector or key filter and details which sub-entries of each entry were bound by the selector. If, instead, you only want to obtain a list of matching keys, use the --keys flag.

If you are working with BibTeX, you can use your .bib file with Hayagriva just like you would use a .yml file. If you want to convert your .bib file to a .yml file, you can the CLI without any additional arguments. It will then show the YAML-formatted bibliography with key and selector filters applied on standard output. If you therefore want to convert your .bib file and save the result somewhere, you can just use >:

hayagriva literature.bib > converted.yml

Contributing

We are looking forward to receiving your bugs and feature requests in the Issues tab. We would also be very happy to accept PRs for bug fixes, minor refactorings, features that were requested in the issues and greenlit by us, as well as the planned features listed below:

• More citation and reference styles (especially styles used in the 'hard' sciences would be incredibly appreciated)
• Implementing the YAML-to-BibLaTeX conversion
• Improvements to the sentence and title formatter
• Work for non-English bibliographies
• Documentation improvements

We wish to thank each and every prospective contributor for the effort you (plan to) invest in this project and for adopting it!

License

Hayagriva is licensed under a MIT / Apache 2.0 dual license.

Users and consumers of the library may choose which of those licenses they want to apply whereas contributors have to accept that their code is in compliance and distributed under the terms of both of these licenses.