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NAME
bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX
SYNOPSIS
bibtex [ -min-crossrefs=number ] [ -verbose ] [ auxname ]
DESCRIPTION
BibTeX 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 LaTeX 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.
BibTeX looks up, in bibliographic database (.bib) files specified by
the \bibliography command, the entries specified by the \cite and
\nocite commands in the LaTeX 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 LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to
work with BibTeX. Appendix B of the manual describes the format of
the .bib files. The `BibTeXing' document describes extensions and
details of this format, and it gives other useful hints for using
BibTeX.
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. Without the -verbose option, BibTeX
operates silently. With it, a banner and progress reports are printed
on stdout.
ENVIRONMENT
BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined by the BSTINPUTS
environment variable for .bst files. If BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses
TEXINPUTS; and if TEXINPUTS is not set, it uses the system default:
.:!!/opt/teTeX/texmf/bibtex/bst//
For .bib files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable if that is
set, otherwise the default:
.:!!/opt/teTeX/texmf/bibtex/bib//
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.
FILES
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*.bst Bibliography style files.
btxdoc.tex ``BibTeXing'' - LaTeXable documentation for general
BibTeX users
btxhak.tex ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable 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, LaTeX - 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 BibTeX. Other ports of BibTeX, 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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