I'd like to be able to export BibTeX entries as (flexibly formatted) strings.

For example, a BibTeX entry like this one:

    @Article{Chomsky:59,
      author    = {Noam Chomsky},
      title     = {On Certain Formal Properties of Grammars},
      year      = {1959},
      volume    = {2},
      pages     = {137--167},
      journal   = {Information and Control}
    }

Should be converted into the following string:

    Chomsky, Noam. 1959. On Certain Formal Properties of Grammars. Information and Control 2. 137--167. 

I used to manage my BibTeX database with JabRef which lets you [customize exports][1]. But I haven't seen something similar in Emacs/`bibtex.el`. 


  [1]: http://help.jabref.org/en/CustomExports