The following is a (probably incomplete) table of the (traditional) fields that are required for each type of BiBTeX entry so that most of the bibutils will work well:
A=article - I=inproceedings - B=book - H=mastersthesis -
H=phdthesis - C=incollection - P=proceedings - T=techreport -
M=manual
*R=required - *U=useful - *O=optional - *N=Not applicable
A I B H C P T M
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*author R R R R R *N R R
*title R R R R R R R R
booktitle N R N N R N N N
editor O U R N U U N N
journal R N O N N N N N
organization O O N O O O R O
*pages R R N N R N N N
*npages O O R R O R R O
*publisher R R R O R R O O
*institution N N N R N N R O
series O O O O O O O O
edition R R O N O O N N
volume R N O N O O N N
number R O O N O O R O
-address O O O O O O O O
-note O O O O O O O O
*year R R R R R R R R
*month U U U U U U U U
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