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6 bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX
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9 bibtex [-min-crossrefs=number] [-terse] auxname[.aux]
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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.
15 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.
20 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 in‐
24 formation from those entries according to instructions in a bibliogra‐
25 phy style (.bst) file (specified by the \bibliographystyle command, and
26 it outputs the results to the .bbl file.
27 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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34 The -min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of crossref re‐
35 quired for automatic inclusion of the crossref base entry in the cita‐
36 tion list; the default is two. To avoid these automatic inclusions al‐
37 together, give this option a sufficiently large number, and be sure to
38 remove any previous .aux and .bbl files. Otherwise the option may ap‐
39 pear to have no effect, since BibTeX will have added the citation for
40 the base entry to the .aux file, and nothing will remove it.
41 With the -terse option, BibTeX operates silently. Without it, a banner
43 and progress reports are printed on stdout.
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46 BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined by the BSTINPUTS
47 environment variable for .bst files. If BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses
48 the system default. For .bib files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment
49 variable if that is set, otherwise the default. See tex(1) for the de‐
50 tails of the searching.
51 If the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT is set, BibTeX attempts to put
53 its output files in it, if they cannot be put in the current directory.
54 Again, see tex(1). No special searching is done for the .aux file.
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57 *.bst Bibliography style files.
58 btxdoc.tex
60 ``BibTeXing'' - LaTeXable documentation for general BibTeX users
61 btxhak.tex
63 ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable documentation for style
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65 btxdoc.bib
67 database file for those two documents
68 xampl.bib
70 database file giving examples of all standard entry types
71 btxbst.doc
73 template file and documentation for the standard styles
74 All those files should be available somewhere on your system.
76 The host math.utah.edu has a vast collection of .bib files available
78 for anonymous ftp, including references for all the standard TeX books
79 and a complete bibliography for TUGboat.
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82 latex(1), tex(1).
83 Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley,
84 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.
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87 Oren Patashnik, Stanford University. This man page describes the web2c
88 version of BibTeX. Other ports of BibTeX, such as Donald Knuth's ver‐
89 sion using the Sun Pascal compiler, do not have the same path searching
90 implementation, or the command-line options.
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