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    "generated": "2026-10-20T09:30:45Z",
    "synopsis": "bibtex [-min-crossrefs=number] [-terse] auxname[.aux]",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "bibtex [-min-crossrefs=number] [-terse] auxname[.aux]\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "This  manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation for this version\nof TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.\n\nBibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file auxname that was output during  the  running\nof  latex(1)  or tex(1) and creates a bibliography (.bbl) file that will be incorporated into\nthe document on subsequent runs of LaTeX or TeX.\n\nBibTeX looks up, in bibliographic database (.bib) files specified by the  \\bibliography  com‐\nmand,  the  entries  specified  by  the \\cite and \\nocite commands in the LaTeX or TeX source\nfile.  It formats the information from those entries according to instructions in a  bibliog‐\nraphy  style (.bst) file (specified by the \\bibliographystyle command, and it outputs the re‐\nsults to the .bbl file.\n\nThe LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with BibTeX.   Appen‐\ndix  B  of  the  manual describes the format of the .bib files.  The `BibTeXing' document de‐\nscribes extensions and details of this format, and it gives other useful hints for using Bib‐\nTeX.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "OPTIONS": {
            "content": "The -min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of crossref required for  automatic  in‐\nclusion  of the crossref base entry in the citation list; the default is two.  To avoid these\nautomatic inclusions altogether, give this option a sufficiently large number, and be sure to\nremove any previous .aux and .bbl files.  Otherwise the option may appear to have no  effect,\nsince  BibTeX  will  have added the citation for the base entry to the .aux file, and nothing\nwill remove it.\n\nWith the -terse option, BibTeX operates silently.  Without it, a banner and progress  reports\nare printed on stdout.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "ENVIRONMENT": {
            "content": "BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined by the BSTINPUTS environment variable for\n.bst  files.   If  BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses the system default.  For .bib files, it uses\nthe BIBINPUTS environment variable if that is set, otherwise the default.  See tex(1) for the\ndetails of the searching.\n\nIf the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT is set, BibTeX attempts to put its  output  files  in\nit, if they cannot be put in the current directory.  Again, see tex(1).  No special searching\nis done for the .aux file.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "FILES": {
            "content": "*.bst  Bibliography style files.\n\nbtxdoc.tex\n``BibTeXing'' - LaTeXable documentation for general BibTeX users\n\nbtxhak.tex\n``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable documentation for style designers\n\nbtxdoc.bib\ndatabase file for those two documents\n\nxampl.bib\ndatabase file giving examples of all standard entry types\n\nbtxbst.doc\ntemplate file and documentation for the standard styles\n\nAll those files should be available somewhere on your system.\n\nThe  host  math.utah.edu has a vast collection of .bib files available for anonymous ftp, in‐\ncluding references for all the standard TeX books and a complete bibliography for TUGboat.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "latex(1), tex(1).\nLeslie  Lamport,  LaTeX  -  A  Document  Preparation  System,  Addison-Wesley,   1985,   ISBN\n0-201-15790-X.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHOR": {
            "content": "Oren  Patashnik,  Stanford  University.  This man page describes the web2c version of BibTeX.\nOther ports of BibTeX, such as Donald Knuth's version using the Sun Pascal compiler,  do  not\nhave the same path searching implementation, or the command-line options.\n\nbibtex 0.99d                              23 February 2018                                 BIBTEX(1)",
            "subsections": []
        }
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