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bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX
bibtex
[ -min-crossrefs=number ] [ -terse ] [ auxname ]
This manual
page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this
version of can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.
reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file that was output during the running
of latex(1)
or tex(1)
and creates a bibliography (.bbl) file that will
be incorporated into the document on subsequent runs of X or . The auxname
on the command line must be given without the .aux extension. If you don't
give the auxname, the program prompts you for it.
looks up, in bibliographic
database (.bib) files specified by the \bibliography command, the entries
specified by the \cite and \nocite commands in the X or source file. It
formats the information from those entries according to instructions in
a bibliography style (.bst) file (specified by the \bibliographystyle command,
and it outputs the results to the .bbl file.
The X manual explains what
a X source file must contain to work with . Appendix B of the manual describes
the format of the .bib files. The `ing' document describes extensions and
details of this format, and it gives other useful hints for using .
The -min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of crossref required
for automatic inclusion of the crossref'd entry on the citation list; the
default is two. With the -terse option, operates silently. Without it,
a banner and progress reports are printed on stdout.
searches
the directories in the path defined by the BSTINPUTS environment variable
for .bst files. If BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses the system default. For
.bib files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable if that is set,
otherwise the default. See tex(1)
for the details of the searching.
If the
environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT is set, attempts to put its output files
in it, if they cannot be put in the current directory. Again, see tex(1)
.
No special searching is done for the .aux file.
- *.bst
- Bibliography
style files.
- btxdoc.tex
- ``ing'' - Xable documentation for general users
- btxhak.tex
- ``Designing Styles'' - Xable documentation for style designers
- btxdoc.bib
- database file for those two documents
- xampl.bib
- database file giving
examples of all standard entry types
- btxbst.doc
- template file and documentation
for the standard styles
All those files should be available somewhere
on your system.
The host math.utah.edu has a vast collection of .bib files
available for anonymous ftp, including references for all the standard
books and a complete bibliography for TUGboat.
latex(1)
, tex(1)
.
Leslie Lamport, X - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 1985,
ISBN 0-201-15790-X.
Oren Patashnik, Stanford University. This man
page describes the web2c version of . Other ports of , such as Donald
Knuth's version using the Sun Pascal compiler, do not have the same path
searching implementation, or the command-line options.
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