{bibliographies} is about creating lists of publications and citing these in a document. For questions about specific or customized citation commands, add {citing}. Popular bibliography packages are {biblatex} and {natbib}. If your question is specifically about BibTeX, use {bibtex}.
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bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib
I've heard of many different bibliography-related packages/platforms/?. What's the difference between the following, which is good for what tasks, advantages/disadvantages, which one is the most ...
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Question mark instead of citation number
I've browsed the forums and found a number of posts that have addressed this issue, but none of the solutions seem to work for me. I have the following script that I just copied from the bibtex home ...
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Workflow for managing references?
What is your workflow for managing references? How does this workflow scale?
Do you use programs like zotero, mendeley, jabref? What are their pros and cons?
Does it allow easy integration of ...
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Using BibTeX to make a list of references without having citations in the body of the document?
Is there any way to have BibTeX insert a bibliography without having citations in the body of the document itself? Maybe a way to hide the in-text citations, so that BibTeX still sees them and ...
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Citing a range of papers (using numeric keys)?
Is there a way so that, when I cite a range of papers, the output is a range of numbers, instead of a list of numbers? In other words, when I type
... some dummy text here is due to me \cite{me1, ...
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Transforming the .bib file to get upper cases
With the following entry in the .bib file
@ARTICLE{a1,
AUTHOR="M., J. J.",
TITLE="My Sample Title",
JOURNAL="Journal Name",
pages="132--234",
YEAR=2000`
}
and with \bibliographystyle{plain} in the ...
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In TeXShop, is there a directive to select biber or BibTeX on a per-document basis?
As in the title, I'd like to be able to select whether TeXShop uses biber or BibTeX in the document rather than using the command line or changing the default in the TeXShop preferences.
For TeX ...
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Renaming the bibliography page using BibTeX
Is there a way to rename (or do away with the name of) the bibliography page that is output using BibTeX? If so, is the name dependent on the bibliographystyle, or is it something inherent within the ...
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Multiple bibliographies
I have the following:
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
\include{chapter1}
\include{chapter2}
\end{document}
I also have a reference.bib file, with entries book1, book2 and book3.
...
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Undefined citation warnings
When I compile my document I get warnings of the form:
Package natbib Warning: Citation `xxxxx' on page y undefined on input line
z.
This problem does fix itself eventually when the compiler ...
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How to APA 6th in LaTeX?
I have previously been writing psychology manuscripts according to the standards of the American Psychological Association (APA, version 5) using the excellent apa class, with apacite managing my ...
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Option to break urls with carriage-return symbol?
There are several ways to get long, uncooperative URLs to line-break in LaTeX. If you're using pdfLaTeX, then the hyperref package can break them across lines for you, roughly after any /. If you ...
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Can one “manually override” BibTeX's choice of citation keys by adding a field to the entry?
Normally, I'm basically OK with bibtex's choice of citation key (by which I mean, the short symbol it shows in the final document, like [2] or [Hil05], not the one one types in the tex file), but ...
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How to use 1. (number followed by dot) format instead of [1] format in bibliography
The editor asked me to use the following format.
Reference
1. Author, blah blah
Instead of
Reference
[1] Author, blah blah ...
Even though in the main text, [1] style has been used.
...
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Customising emacs to use biblatex-biber instead of bibtex
I use biblatex, but I still go through running bibtex on my .bib files, rather than biblatex-biber, which is/will be preferred. How do I arrange for C-c C-c to run the relevant biber command, rather ...
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Incorrect bookmarks and page number in table of contents
I have problem with table of contents and with bookmarks. In pdf file
table of contents shows wrong page number of Introduction and Bibliography,
Bookmarks: introduction and bibliography don't bring ...
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.bib library file in a different directory, how to use? (Mendeley centralised .bib file)
problem
Hello All,
I have the possibility of a centralised, updated .bib file using Mendeley Desktop. This file will stay updated with all the changes I make using my Mendeley citation software.
I ...
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How can I list references from BibTeX file in-line with commentary?
I would like to take the full citation of a reference in my BibTeX file and write commentary in-line after it. A \fullcitation{id} command would be perfect. I would like to use it as:
...
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Make one author's name bold every time it shows up in the bibliography
I'm working on a CV. I'd like to highlight my name in every entry in the bibliography. I've tried simply replacing {myname} with {\bf myname} or {{\bf myname}}, but they fail with various errors, ...
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How to change font size for bibliography?
I want to use a smaller font size for the bibliography, e.g., \footnotesize. What is the easiest way to achieve this? I currently do \renewenvironment{thebibliography}... and copy the definition from ...
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Line breaking of URLs in bibliographies
I have a problem with the line break of an URL. The URL can´t break correct and extends into the border. I´ve tried some things. Amongst others I loaded the package breakurl, but without any success. ...
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Handling bibliographies with many coauthors
Last year I was involved in writing a large group proposal with LaTeX. This involved various sections written and rewritten by disparate subgroups, with all the merging and editing headaches you'd ...
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LaTeX and bibliography management tools
For my writing I am using MS Word and Zotero as bibliography manager. But now I think I am going to move to LaTeX on a Linux box. I just toyed with Texmaker to generate my documents and it works fine ...
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Underline my name in the bibliography
For several documents I'm preparing, I need to highlight (or underline) occurences of my name within the bibliography.
Is there an easy way of doing this?
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Use BibTeX key as the cite key
I tried to use natbib and other attempts but for vain. I would like to produce a cite key which is identical to the BibTeX entry. For example, if I have a BibTeX entry Bt98, then I want \cite{Bt98} to ...
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Can I use natbib in beamer, but omit the bibliography? [duplicate]
Can I call references from my .bib file, but not put a huge bibliography at the end of my presentation? Or at least hide it in a bunch of slides that don't display?
I tend to think in terms of my ...
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Multibib reverse label or sort order
I'm using multibib. I manually set the order of the bibliography. I would like the order of the numbered items to be reversed. For example, my document has:
\nociteX{Foo}
\nociteX{Bar}
And the ...
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Having several keys refer to the same bibliography entry
Is it possible to have several keys referring to the same bibliography entry (using biblatex+Biber)?
For example, I'd like \cite{Tolkien:1954:LordOfTheRings} and \cite{lotr} to have exactly the same ...
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How can I prevent page break between lines of a paragraph or bibliography entry?
My university's thesis guidelines require that each bibliographic entry appear in whole on a single page, rather than being split across two. How can I prevent (La)TeX breaking a paragraph across a ...
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Bibliography in table of contents
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\include{chapter1}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{biblio}
\end{document}
The bibliography does not appear in the table of contents, have you an ...
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Citations with no bibliography at the end
How do you produce a document with citations (\citep, \citet) working properly in the paper but without a bibliography at the end?
I've come up with one solution that is bad because it breaks my ...
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Punctuation in bibliography with multiple languages
In a document written in a given language (in my case French but it may not matter so much) I have a bibliography mixing entries in different languages (in this case French, English and German). I ...
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How to make a bib entry appear also in the main document
I have a reference which has a bib entry and appears in the bibliography. I want to be able to include the entire entry, exactly as it appears in the bibliography, somewhere else in the document.
Is ...
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Change reports text for bibliography
I have a report style document:
\LoadClass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
and when I do:
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{references}
it shows :
Bibliography instead of References
Is it ...
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Starting a PhD; Any guides to setting up a 'system'?
I'm starting a PhD and am being overwhelmed with the different possible ways people do things, and how they very rarely mix.
I'm (obviously) sold on TeXing it, and have a ViM background I intend on ...
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Unused bibliography entries - how to check which entries were not used?
This question led to a new package:
checkcites
While reading papers, I put those that I'd like to refer to or mention in customized .bib files (one .bib file for each paper). (Thanks to ...
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How to enter publications “in press”, or “submitted to” in BibTeX?
Is there a convention for how to enter publications that are "in preparation" or "submitted to Some Journal" into a BibTeX database?
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Bibliography with page numbers
In GKP's Concrete Mathematics, there is a useful and interesting feature I would like to see in more books. The bibliography entries include:
a - the page numbers where the book or article is cited ...
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Internal bibliography with biblatex
I would like to have a paper's bibliography entries inside its .tex file instead of outside in a .bib file. Is this possible with biblatex?
My reason for asking this is that I want to find the most ...
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How to deal with bibliography items containing long URLs?
A picture is worth a thousand macros:
I don't blame LaTeX for having difficulty in formatting this entry.
What can I do, however, to alleviate the effects and avoid the Word-like indentation?
A ...
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Reduce bibliography to one line
Quick question, hopefully with a quick answer. I'm writing a paper where I'm limited by length (2 pages) and I need references, but it doesn't have to look nice. I'd like LaTeX to compress my ...
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How do I break up a bibliography into separately numbered sections?
There are at least two use cases where one might want to list items in a bibliography under separate subsections with different numbering conventions.
a CV, where you'd like to list journal papers, ...
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Hiding the title of the bibliography
I'd like to get rid of the bibliography heading:
Please note that I'm using the thebibliography environment.
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How to cite one bibentry in full length in the body text?
I am using the natbib package.
Now I want to have a bibliography entry cited in full length in the text. That should also appear in the bibliography are. For example
Text text...
Mr. ABCD ...
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Url references in bibliography
I am using TexMaker. I would like to know how to include web site references in the .bib file. I am using bibliography style , alpha. How does the website reference appear in the bibliography
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How can I change the “References” to “Reference” in the thebibliography environment?
My problem is that I have only one reference. So I would like the head of this part to appear "Reference" instead of commonly "References". More generally, could we change the title "References" to an ...
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Bibliography in two columns, section title in one
I'm using the following to span the bibliography to two columns:
\begin{multicols}{2}
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
\bibliography{mybib}
\end{multicols}
Yet, the section title ("References" in the ...
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Hyperlinks to a bibliography are one line off
I have long despaired of resolving the following glitch: if I am using hyperref with amsrefs, then all \cite links to the bibliography point to the line right below where they are supposed to. Here ...
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What is the proper way to cite a legal document?
I need to cite some decrees in my essay for philosophy of science class.
I believe it is a common problem, so there should be a standardized way.
Thanx.
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Displaying short version of author name in citations
I was wondering whether there is any way to change single entries in a bibliography. I want the cite command to give me a short version of this very long entry. I know I could change it manually in ...
