bibtex(1)

1BIBTEX(1)                   General Commands Manual                  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 ]
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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 that was output during
17       the running of latex(1) or tex(1) and  creates  a  bibliography  (.bbl)
18       file  that will be incorporated into the document on subsequent runs of
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
26       information  from those entries according to instructions in a bibliog‐
27       raphy style (.bst) file (specified by the  \bibliographystyle  command,
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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
33       this format, and it gives other useful hints for using BibTeX.
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OPTIONS

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

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

54       *.bst  Bibliography style files.
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56       btxdoc.tex
57              ``BibTeXing'' - LaTeXable documentation for general BibTeX users
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59       btxhak.tex
60              ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable documentation for  style
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63       btxdoc.bib
64              database file for those two documents
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67              database file giving examples of all standard entry types
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72       All those files should be available somewhere on your system.
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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
76       and a complete bibliography for TUGboat.
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AUTHOR

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