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Improper use of @inbook for Book Chapters Instead of @incollection #101

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Dear doi2bib Team,

I noticed that your service generates @inbook entries for book chapters, even when they are part of edited volumes with distinct authors. However, in BibTeX, @incollection is the correct entry type for such cases, as it properly handles chapter title, book title, editors, and page numbers.

Switching to @incollection would improve compatibility with standard BibTeX styles and produce more accurate references.

Thank you for the great tool, and I hope you find this suggestion helpful.

Best regards!

EXAMPLE:

inserting the following link into doi2bib https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9608-7_1 produces:

@inbook{Best2019,
  title     = {Atomistic Force Fields for Proteins},
  booktitle = {Biomolecular Simulations},
  author    = {Best,  Robert B.},
  publisher = {Springer New York},
  year      = {2019},
  pages     = {3–19},
  ISBN      = {9781493996087},
  ISSN      = {1940-6029},
  url       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9608-7_1},
  DOI       = {10.1007/978-1-4939-9608-7_1},
}

Correct would be:

@incollection{Bonomi2019,
  title     = {Atomistic Force Fields for Proteins},
  booktitle = {Biomolecular Simulations},
  author    = {Robert B. Best},
  editor    = {Massimiliano Bonomi and Carlo Camilloni},
  publisher = {Springer New York},
  year      = {2019},
  pages     = {3--19},
  chapter   = {1},
  isbn      = {9781493996087},
  issn      = {1940-6029},
  url       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9608-7_1},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-1-4939-9608-7_1}
}

The output of these items is shown below for using bibliographystyle plain in bibtex. The doi2bib output (not conforming to any popular academic citation styles, booktitle and editors missing):

[12] Robert B. Best. Atomistic Force Fields for Proteins, page 3–19. Springer New York, 2019.

The corrected doi2bib output with @incollection instead of @inbook (closely conforming to APA style):

[12] Robert B. Best. Atomistic force fields for proteins. In Massimiliano Bonomi and Carlo Camilloni, editors, Biomolecular Simulations, chapter 1, pages 3–19. Springer New York, 2019.

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