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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 ver-
sion 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 run-
ning of latex(1) or tex(1) and creates a bibliography (.bbl) file that will be incorpo-
rated into the document on subsequent runs of LaTeX or TeX.
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 out-
puts the results to the .bbl file.
The LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with BibTeX. Ap-
pendix 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 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 re-
ports 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,
including references for all the standard TeX books and a complete bibliography for TUG-
boat.
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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