1REFER(1) General Commands Manual REFER(1)
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6 refer, lookbib - find and insert literature references in documents
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9 refer [ option ] ...
10 lookbib [ file ] ...
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14 Lookbib accepts keywords from the standard input and searches a biblio‐
15 graphic data base for references that contain those keywords anywhere
16 in title, author, journal name, etc. Matching references are printed
17 on the standard output. Blank lines are taken as delimiters between
18 queries.
19 Refer is a preprocessor for nroff or troff(1) that finds and formats
21 references. The input files (standard input default) are copied to the
22 standard output, except for lines between .[ and .] command lines,
23 which are assumed to contain keywords as for lookbib, and are replaced
24 by information from the bibliographic data base. The user may avoid
25 the search, override fields from it, or add new fields. The reference
26 data, from whatever source, are assigned to a set of troff strings.
27 Macro packages such as ms(7) print the finished reference text from
28 these strings. A flag is placed in the text at the point of reference;
29 by default the references are indicated by numbers.
30 The following options are available:
32 -ar Reverse the first r author names (Jones, J. A. instead of J. A.
34 Jones). If r is omitted all author names are reversed.
35 -b Bare mode: do not put any flags in text (neither numbers nor
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38 -cstring
40 Capitalize (with CAPS SMALL CAPS) the fields whose key-letters
41 are in string.
42 -e Instead of leaving the references where encountered, accumulate
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46 $LIST$
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49 far. Collapse references to the same source.
50 -kx Instead of numbering references, use labels as specified in a
52 reference data line beginning %x; by default x is L.
53 -lm,n Instead of numbering references, use labels made from the senior
55 author's last name and the year of publication. Only the first m
56 letters of the last name and the last n digits of the date are
57 used. If either m or ,n is omitted the entire name or date
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59 -p Take the next argument as a file of references to be searched.
61 The default file is searched last.
62 -n Do not search the default file.
64 -skeys
66 Sort references by fields whose key-letters are in the keys
67 string; permute reference numbers in text accordingly. Implies
68 -e. The key-letters in keys may be followed by a number to indi‐
69 cate how many such fields are used, with + taken as a very large
70 number. The default is AD which sorts on the senior author and
71 then date; to sort, for example, on all authors and then title
72 use -sA+T.
73 To use your own references, put them in the format described in
75 pubindex(1) They can be searched more rapidly by running pubindex(1) on
76 them before using refer; failure to index results in a linear search.
77 When refer is used with eqn, neqn or tbl, refer should be first, to
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82 /usr/dict/papers directory of default publication lists and indexes
83 /usr/lib/refer directory of programs
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