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BIBTEX
!!!BIBTEX
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
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!!NAME


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


__bibtex__ [[ __-min-crossrefs__''=number'' ] [[
__-terse__ ] [[ ''auxname'' ]
!!DESCRIPTION


This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
documentation for this version of TEX can be found in the
info file or manual ''Web2C: A TeX
implementation''.


B IB TEX reads the top-level auxiliary
(''.aux'') file that was output during the running of
latex(1) or tex(1) and creates a bibliography
(''.bbl'') file that will be incorporated into the
document on subsequent runs of L A TEX or
TEX. The ''auxname'' on the command line must be given
without the ''.aux'' extension. If you don't give the
''auxname'', the program prompts you for it.


B IB TEX looks up, in bibliographic database
(''.bib'') files specified by the bibliography command,
the entries specified by the cite and nocite commands in the
L A TEX or TEX source file. It formats the
information from those entries according to instructions in
a bibliography style (''.bst'') file (specified by the
bibliographystyle command, and it outputs the results to the
''.bbl'' file.


The L A TEX manual explains what a L
A TEX source file must contain to work with B
IB TEX. Appendix B of the manual describes
the format of the ''.bib'' files. The `B
IB TEXing' document describes extensions and
details of this format, and it gives other useful hints for
using B IB TEX.
!!OPTIONS


The __-min-crossrefs__ option defines the minimum number
of __crossref__ required for automatic inclusion of the
crossref'd entry on the citation list; the default is two.
With the __-terse__ option, B IB TEX
operates silently. Without it, a banner and progress reports
are printed on ''stdout''.
!!ENVIRONMENT


B IB TEX searches the directories in the path
defined by the BSTINPUTS environment variable for
''.bst'' files. If BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses the
system default. For ''.bib'' files, it uses the BIBINPUTS
environment variable if that is set, otherwise the default.
See tex(1) for the details of the
searching.


If the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT is set, B
IB TEX 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.
!!FILES


''*.bst''


Bibliography style files.


''btxdoc.tex''


``B IB TEXing'' - L A TEXable
documentation for general B IB TEX
users


''btxhak.tex''


``Designing B IB TEX Styles'' - L
A TEXable documentation for style
designers


''btxdoc.bib''


database file for those two documents


''xampl.bib''


database file giving examples of all standard entry
types


''btxbst.doc''


template file and documentation for the standard
styles


All those files should be available somewhere on your
system.


The host math.utah.edu has a vast collection of ''.bib''
files available for anonymous ftp, including references for
all the standard TEX books and a complete bibliography for
TUGboat.
!!SEE ALSO


latex(1), tex(1).
Leslie Lamport, L A TEX ''- A Document
Preparation System'', Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN
0-201-15790-X.
!!AUTHOR


Oren Patashnik, Stanford University. This man page describes
the web2c version of B IB TEX. Other ports of
B IB TEX, such as Donald Knuth's version
using the Sun Pascal compiler, do not have the same path
searching implementation, or the command-line
options.
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