>> Agreed. Google Scholar citations need very close proofreading, as they
>> can be erroneous or poorly formatted.
>
> Thanks Matt - I'd agree with this, having seen oddities from google
> scholar. I emailed them ages ago about one problem (formatting of
> initials in author names), but never heard back... it is a pity that
> there is no mechanism for tidying up their references, as it seems to be
> the best thing out there that covers all the fields.
>
> Having said that, if google scholar can save me some typing, I'll
> happilyuse it as a starting point for a bibtex entry. I've just started
> using pdfmeat -- this is nice, as given a pdf, it outputs the
> corresponding bibtex entry from google scholar. Probably works similar
> to the way zotero does it, but can be used straight from the command
> line:
>
>
http://code.google.com/p/pdfmeat/
>
Thanks for the link! That looks like a useful tool.