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6 bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX
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9 bibtex [ -min-crossrefs=number ] [ -terse ] [ auxname ]
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12 This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documen‐
13 tation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
14 Web2C: A TeX implementation.
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16 BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file that was output during
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19 LaTeX or TeX. The auxname on the command line must be given without
20 the .aux extension. If you don't give the auxname, the program prompts
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23 BibTeX looks up, in bibliographic database (.bib) files specified by
24 the \bibliography command, the entries specified by the \cite and
25 \nocite commands in the LaTeX or TeX source file. It formats the
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30 The LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work
31 with BibTeX. Appendix B of the manual describes the format of the .bib
32 files. The `BibTeXing' document describes extensions and details of
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38 tion list; the default is two. With the -terse option, BibTeX operates
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43 BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined by the BSTINPUTS
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60 ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable documentation for style
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74 The host math.utah.edu has a vast collection of .bib files available
75 for anonymous ftp, including references for all the standard TeX books
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80 Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley,
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