Tools for tracking collaborator's contributions to papers and automating writing large author lists. Currently only generates lists for Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). Feel free to fork and add functions for your own preferred journals.
An example spreadsheet showing the structure that should be followed for the code to work is shown in: example.xlxs
If you make use of PyTeXAuthors for a publication, please include the following for similar text in your acknowledgements:
The author list and affiliations of this paper was created using \texttt{PyTeXAuthors}. The code is available at \url{https://github.com/TobyRodel/pytexauthors}.To quickly generate an author list for MNRAS simply run the mnras_script.py script with command line arguments for the input spreadsheet and output author list file:
python mnras_script.py -i example.xlxs -o example_list.tex