Questions tagged [bibtex]

a file format or tool for specifying bibliography entries, mostly used in tex-based document builders

Bibtex is a bibliography data format which is widely used in tex/latex documents. A bibtex entry consists of a subset of about 20 different data entries; the subset often depends on the document type.

A sample bibtex entry may look like this:

@article{consensus,
  author = {Jeroen Bruggeman and V.A. Traag and Justus Uitermark},
  year = {2012},
  title = {Detecting communities through network data.},
  journal = {American Sociological Review},
  volume = {77},
  number = {6},
  pages = {1050-1063},
  note = {A comment on 
    <a href="http://asr.sagepub.com/content/75/6/817.abstract">
    The temporal structure of scientific consensus formation
    </a>, with <a href="http://asr.sagepub.com/content/77/6/1064.extract">
    reply</a> from authors.},
  doi = {10.1177/0003122412463574},
  url = {http://asr.sagepub.com/content/77/6/1050.abstract},
  gsid = {3563051433438701877},
  pdfurl = {publications/ASR-comment.pdf}
}
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How to order citations by appearance using BibTeX?

By default (using the plain style) BibTeX orders citations alphabetically. How to order the citations by order of appearance in the document?
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Preserving all capitalization in BibTeX

I have a huge .bib file generated automatically from Papers for Mac and all the capitalization in the .bib is already the way I want it, but it doesn't have {} brackets on word like RNA. Is there a way to force BibTeX to keep the capitalization…
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How to manually equalize columns in an IEEE paper if using BibTex?

IEEE conference publications in two-column format require authors to manually equalize the lengths of the columns on the last page of the final submission. I have typically done this by inserting a \newpage where necessary -- which usually ends up…
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Compiling LaTex bib source

I am writing my thesis in Latex, and I have the references in an own thesis.bib file which look as follows @Article{xxx, author = "D.A. Reinhard", title = "Case Study", year = "1985", } and I reference them in my main…
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LaTeX and Bibtex: command to print a single full reference from a bib file?

I'd like to be able to print a single reference from a Bibtex .bib file anywhere in my LaTeX document—not cite it, but print the reference, exactly as it would appear in the normal bibliography listing. So if this is a regular citation, that prints…
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Get metadata from DOI

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a globally unique string that identifies an electronic document (for example, a PDF of an academic article). It essentially provides a method for creating a permalink to a document (for example,…
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How to handle citations in Ipython Notebook?

What is the best way to take care of citations in Ipython Notebook? Ideally, I would like to have a bibtex file, and then, as in latex, have a list of shorthands in Ipython markdown cells, with the full references at the end of the notebook. The…
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bib-style format for bibtext bst file- explained by an example

my question is regarding the way a bibtex-style field is defined in a bst file. I would like to have the following example below explained piece by piece, to understand what each piece is doing. I would like to be in a position to make changes to…
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LaTeX: bibliography per chapter

I am helping a colleague with his PhD thesis and we need to present the bibliography at the end of each chapter. The question is: does anyone have a minimal working example for this case using latex+bibtex? The current document structure that we…
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Is there a reliable python library for taking a BibTex entry and outputting it into specific formats?

I'm developing using Python and Django for a website. I want to take a BibTex entry and output it in a view in 3 different formats, MLA, APA, and Chicago. Is there a library out there that already does this or am I going to have to manually do the…
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How do I cite the title of an article in LaTeX?

I'm using LaTeX and BibTeX for an article, and I want to able to cite the title of an article I reference. What is the command to do this? I'm using \bibliographystyle{chicago} and it does not appear to be \citeT{}, \citetitle{} or \citeTitle{}
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Automatically abbreviate authors' first names in LaTeX

Using natbib/Latex/Bibtex, in the references section I get references with full first names like: Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein. Binary codes capable of correcting deletions, insertions, and reversals. Technical Report 8, 1966. I would like…
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How do I convert a BibTex bib file to Word 2010 XML?

What's the best way to convert a Bibtex .bib file to an XML file that can be imported by MS Word 2010?
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Bibliography as section in LaTeX / BibTeX

I'm writing a short document using sections rather than chapters as the top-level (documentclass report). However, \bibliographystyle{amsplain} \bibliography{general} causes the bibliography to be inserted as a chapter rather than a section. Is…
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LaTeX: Cite, but don't reference

I'm producing a set of documents in LaTeX, and I would like to provide a single, global bibliography page for the whole set. This is because each document is page-limited: I don't want to take up space with references at the bottom of each one. This…
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