bibtex(1)

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NAME

6       bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX
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SYNOPSIS

9       bibtex [-min-crossrefs=number] [-terse] auxname[.aux]
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DESCRIPTION

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 auxname that was out‐
17       put during the running of latex(1) or tex(1) and creates a bibliography
18       (.bbl)  file  that will be incorporated into the document on subsequent
19       runs of LaTeX or TeX.
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21       BibTeX looks up, in bibliographic database (.bib)  files  specified  by
22       the  \bibliography  command,  the  entries  specified  by the \cite and
23       \nocite commands in the LaTeX or  TeX  source  file.   It  formats  the
24       information  from those entries according to instructions in a bibliog‐
25       raphy style (.bst) file (specified by the  \bibliographystyle  command,
26       and it outputs the results to the .bbl file.
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28       The LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work
29       with BibTeX.  Appendix B of the manual describes the format of the .bib
30       files.  The  `BibTeXing'  document  describes extensions and details of
31       this format, and it gives other useful hints for using BibTeX.
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OPTIONS

34       The -min-crossrefs  option  defines  the  minimum  number  of  crossref
35       required  for  automatic inclusion of the crossref'd entry on the cita‐
36       tion list; the default is two.  With the -terse option, BibTeX operates
37       silently.   Without  it,  a  banner and progress reports are printed on
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ENVIRONMENT

41       BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined  by  the  BSTINPUTS
42       environment  variable  for .bst files. If BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses
43       the system default.  For .bib files, it uses the BIBINPUTS  environment
44       variable  if  that  is  set, otherwise the default.  See tex(1) for the
45       details of the searching.
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47       If the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT is set, BibTeX attempts to  put
48       its output files in it, if they cannot be put in the current directory.
49       Again, see tex(1).  No special searching is done for the .aux file.
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FILES

52       *.bst  Bibliography style files.
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54       btxdoc.tex
55              ``BibTeXing'' - LaTeXable documentation for general BibTeX users
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57       btxhak.tex
58              ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable documentation for  style
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61       btxdoc.bib
62              database file for those two documents
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64       xampl.bib
65              database file giving examples of all standard entry types
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67       btxbst.doc
68              template file and documentation for the standard styles
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70       All those files should be available somewhere on your system.
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72       The  host  math.utah.edu  has a vast collection of .bib files available
73       for anonymous ftp, including references for all the standard TeX  books
74       and a complete bibliography for TUGboat.
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AUTHOR

82       Oren Patashnik, Stanford University.  This man page describes the web2c
83       version  of BibTeX.  Other ports of BibTeX, such as Donald Knuth's ver‐
84       sion using the Sun Pascal compiler, do not have the same path searching
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