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- BIBTEX(1) USER COMMANDS BIBTEX(1)
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- NAME
- bibtex - make a bibliography for TeX
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- SYNOPSIS
- bibtex [aux_file_name]
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- DESCRIPTION
- BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file that was
- output during a running of tex(1) and creates a bibliography
- (.bbl) file that will be incorporated into the document on
- subsequent runs. The aux_file_name on the command line must
- be given without the .aux extension. If you don't give the
- aux_file_name, the program prompts you for it.
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- BibTeX looks up, in bibliography database (.bib) files, the
- entries specified by the (for example) \cite and \nocite
- commands in the source file. It formats the information
- from those entries according to instructions in a style
- (.bst) file, and it outputs the results to the .bbl file.
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- The LaTeX manual (a.k.a. LaTeX - A Document Preparation
- System, by Leslie Lamport, published by Addison-Wesley)
- explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with
- BibTeX. Appendix B of the LaTeX manual describes the format
- of the .bib files. The `BibTeXing' document by Oren Patash-
- nik describes extensions and details of this format, and it
- gives other useful hints for using BibTeX.
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- BibTeX can be used with formats other than LaTeX; in partic-
- ular, the eplain macros support BibTeX.
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- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
- bibtex searches the directories in the path defined by the
- TEXINPUTS environment variable for .bst files. If TEXINPUTS
- is not set, it uses the system default: . For .bib files,
- it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable in a similar way.
- The default path there is: .,TeX:bibinputs. See tex(1) for
- the details of the searching. If the environment variable
- TEXMFOUTPUT is set, BibTeX attempts to put its output files
- in it, if they cannot be put in the current directory.
- Again, see tex(1). No special searching is done for the
- .aux file.
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- FILES
- TeX:inputs/bst/*.bst standard style files
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- btxdoc.tex `BibTeXing' - LaTeXable documenta-
- tion for general BibTeX users
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- btxhak.tex `Designing BibTeX Styles' - LaTeX-
- able documentation for style
- designers
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- Last change: 9/18/90 1
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- BIBTEX(1) USER COMMANDS BIBTEX(1)
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- btxdoc.bib database file for those two docu-
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- xampl.bib database file with examples of all
- standard entry types
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- btxbst.doc template file and documentation for
- the standard styles
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- All these files should be available somewhere on your sys-
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- SEE ALSO
- latex(1), tex(1)
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- AUTHOR
- Oren Patashnik, Stanford University.
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