man > bibtex(1)

BIBTEX(1)                                    Web2C 2023                                    BIBTEX(1)

NAME
       bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX

SYNOPSIS
       bibtex [-min-crossrefs=number] [-terse] auxname[.aux]

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.

       BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file auxname 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.

       BibTeX looks up, in bibliographic database (.bib) files specified by the  \bibliography  com‐
       mand,  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  bibliog‐
       raphy  style (.bst) file (specified by the \bibliographystyle command, and it outputs the re‐
       sults to the .bbl file.

       The LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with BibTeX.   Appen‐
       dix  B  of  the  manual describes the format of the .bib files.  The `BibTeXing' document de‐
       scribes extensions and details of this format, and it gives other useful hints for using Bib‐
       TeX.

OPTIONS
       The -min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of crossref required for  automatic  in‐
       clusion  of the crossref base entry in the citation list; the default is two.  To avoid these
       automatic inclusions altogether, give this option a sufficiently large number, and be sure to
       remove any previous .aux and .bbl files.  Otherwise the option may appear to have no  effect,
       since  BibTeX  will  have added the citation for the base entry to the .aux file, and nothing
       will remove it.

       With the -terse option, BibTeX operates silently.  Without 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 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, 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
       *.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, in‐
       cluding 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.

bibtex 0.99d                              23 February 2018                                 BIBTEX(1)