How to make BIBLIOGRAPHIES in Latex
To make a bibliography using latex/bibtex...
Pretend that the file that we are using is called 'foo.tex'. To make a
bibliography, we should put all our sources into a file called 'foo.bib'. The
structure of foo.bib is as follows (note that Scribe and LaTeX use the same
format for their .bib files):
@BOOK{<some abbreviation that you make up>,
AUTHOR = "author",
TITLE = "book title",
PUBLISHER = {publishing company},
ADDRESS = {where published},
YEAR = year published}
For our sample document, we will use the following:
@BOOK{bar,
AUTHOR = "Star, R. M.",
TITLE = "Foo Bar Baz",
PUBLISHER = {MIT Press},
ADDRESS = {Cambridge, MA},
YEAR = 1989}
** IMPORTANT: BIBTeX uses REAL quotation marks (") and NOT the opening **
** and closing quotation marks (`` and '') that LaTeX normally uses!! **
Now, everytime you refer to the book Foo Bar Baz in foo.tex, you refer to it
in the following manner:
\cite[p. 2] {bar}
This will match the citation number with the number of the book in the list of
references.
If you have a few references that you did not explicitely cite in the text of
your document, but you would like to include it in the list of references, you
use the following (in foo.tex):
\nocite {baz,fuzz,bong}
where baz, fuzz, and bong are abbreviations for the other texts.
To actually create the bibliography, you need to use the following commands in
foo.tex (these are usually at the end of the document - where you want the
References section to appear):
\bibliography{foo}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
There are several options for \bibliographystyle:
plain normal style - listed in ABC order and labeled numerically
unsrt same as plain except entries appear in order of citation
alpha same as plain except entry labels are used
abbrv same as plain except uses abbreviations for first names,
month names, and journal names
Now that you have the basis for a bibliography, you have to run both latex and
bibtex on the document. First, you should run latex (to create a foo.aux
file, which bibtex reads). Then run bibtex once to get some of the citations
and create a .bbl file. Then run latex again so that the cross references
between the text file and the bibliography are correct. You may want to
repeat running bibtex and latex on the file to make sure that all cross
references are correct. Be warned that adding/deleting citations and sources
will require running bibtex again.
For more information on this topic, please refer the following pages in the
LaTeX manual by Leslie Lamport:
72-74 Bibliography and Citation
74-74 BibTeX
140-147 Format of the .bib File (also gives info on other entry types)
187-188 Bibliography and Citation
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If all of this seems complicated, there is a simpler way to produce a
quick bibliography for your document. This can be used for smaller
papers, ones that don't need a very extensive bibliography. Something
like this will work fine:
\begin{thebibliography}{1}
\bibitem{notes} John W. Dower {\em Readings compiled for History
21.479.} 1991.
\bibitem{impj} The Japan Reader {\em Imperial Japan 1800-1945} 1973:
Random House, N.Y.
\bibitem{norman} E. H. Norman {\em Japan's emergence as a modern
state} 1940: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific
Relations.
\bibitem{fo} Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi {\em Anti-Foreignism and Western
Learning in Early-Modern Japan} 1986: Harvard University Press.
\end{thebibliography}
You can put this at the end of your LaTeX file. If you want to refer to
something from your bibliography you can put something like this in your
file:
This is obvious \cite{norman}.
which would produce something like
This is obvious [2].
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