1 .TH BIBTEX 1 "16 June 2015" "bibtex 0.99d" "Web2C @VERSION@"
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15 bibtex \- make a bibliography for (La)TeX
18 .RB [ \-min-crossrefs=\fInumber\fP ]
20 .IR auxname [ \fB.aux\fP ]
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23 This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
24 documentation for this version of \*(TX can be found in the info file
26 .IR "Web2C: A TeX implementation" .
28 \*(BX reads the top-level auxiliary
32 that was output during the running of
36 and creates a bibliography
38 file that will be incorporated into the document on subsequent runs of
41 \*(BX looks up, in bibliographic database
43 files specified by the \\bibliography command,
44 the entries specified by the \\cite and \\nocite commands
45 in the \*(LX or \*(TX source file.
46 It formats the information from those entries
47 according to instructions in a bibliography style
49 file (specified by the \\bibliographystyle command,
50 and it outputs the results to the
55 explains what a \*(LX source file must contain to work with \*(BX.
56 Appendix B of the manual describes the format of the
58 files. The `\*(BXing' document describes extensions and details of
59 this format, and it gives other useful hints for using \*(BX.
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64 option defines the minimum number of
66 required for automatic inclusion of the crossref'd entry on the citation
67 list; the default is two.
70 option, \*(BX operates silently. Without it, a banner and progress
71 reports are printed on
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76 \*(BX searches the directories in the
77 path defined by the BSTINPUTS environment variable for
79 files. If BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses the system default.
82 files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable if that is set,
83 otherwise the default.
86 for the details of the searching.
88 If the environment variable
89 TEXMFOUTPUT is set, \*(BX attempts to put its output
90 files in it, if they cannot be put in the current directory. Again, see
92 No special searching is done for the
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99 Bibliography style files.
102 ``\*(BXing'' \- \*(LXable documentation for general \*(BX users
105 ``Designing \*(BX Styles'' \- \*(LXable documentation for style designers
108 database file for those two documents
111 database file giving examples of all standard entry types
114 template file and documentation for the standard styles
116 All those files should be available somewhere on your system.
118 The host math.utah.edu has a vast collection of
120 files available for anonymous ftp, including references for all the
121 standard \*(TX books and a complete bibliography for TUGboat.
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128 .IR "\*(LX \- A Document Preparation System" ,
129 Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.
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132 Oren Patashnik, Stanford University. This man page describes the web2c
133 version of \*(BX. Other ports of \*(BX, such as Donald Knuth's version
134 using the Sun Pascal compiler, do not have the same path searching
135 implementation, or the command-line options.