{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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Bibliography tooltips with XeLaTeX and automated workflow [closed]

I would like to make bibliographic entries appear in a popup tooltips (in a supporting PDF viewer) when you hover over the citation key. An approach to realise this was discussed here: Showing the ...
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How do I [simply] typeset a bibliography as a separate PDF?

I'm preparing a document that requires the body of the text and the references to be separate PDF files. Of course, the bibliography comes from \bibliograpy command and the text citations come from ...
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Can I cite something while specifying exactly what text will appear at that place?

First up, I'm using natbib. I'm trying implement a citation style (Thankfully only a few citations, so I'm happy to work things by hand) that is essentially of the following form: At the point of ...
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Added chapter with addcontentsline does not adapt style of ToC

I added my BibTeX references following: \cleardoublepage \phantomsection \nocite{*} \bibliographystyle{plainnat} %\setlength{\bibsep}{3mm} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References} ...
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Beamer and Natbib

I'm making a beamer presentation and I'd like to use natbib because of its \citet and that it recognizes URLs. However, when I try to compile it, while doing the third PDFLaTeX pass, there appear this ...
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Group the references in bibliography

I am preparing a report in LaTeX and I have many references which I intend to put in the Bibliography. I was wondering if it possible to group the reference based on the topic. I would expect a LaTeX ...
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Citation Manager

This question is borderline TeX related but I think it may still be relevant. What is the best citation manager to use in conjunction with LaTeX? The cutting edge in citation management software ...
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Typesetting multiple TeX files

Q1. Is there an existing template with the following features: (1) Multiple files, which I can typeset individually (as and when necessary). (2) A single .bib file from which I can cite in ...
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Where can I find collections of bibliography styles?

Is there a central 'warehouse' or, perhaps, a 'list of collections', of bibliography styles? My preference is for BibLaTeX, but I'm sure answers for BibTeX would also be helpful. I don't have any ...
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Sectioning bibliography by type of refered item

My promoteur has a very unusual requirement: the bibliography needs to be sorted first by specific type of refered item, next by author and by year of publication. I managed to get this custom ...
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Use bibliography numbers and citation from other file

This question led to a new package: xcite I want to reference to citations from other file. Similar to what xr package does to labels, but I want to apply it for the bibliography. If I'm able ...
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How can I add the bibliography in a report with its own section, including number?

I'm writing my thesis as a report document using TeXShop (pdflatex and bibtex) and want the bibliography to get its own section number and appear in the table of contents. Here's what I've tried so ...
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Which publication type for forthcoming papers in BibTeX?

I need to cite a forthcoming paper (paper that is accepted, but still not published, I guess?). However when I use the unpublished or proceedings publication type I don't get the result I want. Some ...
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bibliography style for Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Does anyone know which bibliography style meet the following formatting requirements? The followings are the format required by Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, I have spend a long ...
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Cite bibliography in beamer with a concrete style

In a beamer presentation I want to cite some bibliography. I prepared the following minimal example: \RequirePackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib} @article{ZINC, author = ...
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Underfull \hbox in bibliography

I am getting lots of "Underfull \hbox" warnings that point to the *.bbl file. It looks like these messages appear only when URLs are very long, like in the below example: @techreport{nistguidesec, ...
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Unsorted citations and floats

In attempting to answer this question Citations in order of appearance it's clear that unsorted citation schemes (ones in which the citations are numbered simply by order of appearance) can be easily ...
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N first words command for citation style

I need a way to get to display three first words of the title in citations and if some words did not get displayed add dots. I am using Biblatex. \nfirstwords[3]{I Like Apples and Oranges}{\dots} ...
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Beamer ignores citecolor from hyperref

How do I make citation links green in Beamer? It seems that Beamer ignores the hyperref option citecolor. I tried using the linkcolor option instead, but that affects all links (such as the link to ...
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Harvard agsm bibliography style no comma and bold volume

I've been grappling with the harvard style bibliography (agsm) all day and have managed to fix most of the issues I've had, however I am still left with bold volume numbers and no comma between the ...
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Bibtex with no references title [duplicate]

I am working on writing a scientific poster in LaTeX, and I want to include a few references for my work. Because this is a poster, I have my own customized headers for different sections, and don't ...
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Multiple bibliographies (reference lists) using embedded bibliography database

I would like to have multiple bibliographies (reference lists) as described in Airminded · Multiple bibliographies in LaTeX (TeX Frequently Asked Questions -- question label "multbib"). However, ...
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Sort thebibliography by citation order

Can thebibliography be sorted by citation order? Or is there a solution with an inlined bibliography that can be sorted? Not having an additional .bib file would be preferable. My current ...
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How to get sequential references in my paper?

I'm using TeXnicCenter to write my all document and generate my bib file by using JabRef. However I noticed that my references are out of order. It seems the addition order to JabRef file forces the ...
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Processing a BibTeX database based on entry type

Consider a BibTeX database (i.e. a .bib file), in which there are over 100 entries. Entry types are journal publications, conference publications, etc., all of which are published by some specific ...
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BibTex - Show ISBN number?

Is it possible to show the ISBN/ISSN fields of books with BibTeX? For instance, I have the following entry on my .bib file: @book{QueueSystems, author = "Leonard Kleinrock", title = ...
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Automatically adding DOI fields to a hand-made bibliography

Is there a tool that will read a .bib file and add the correct DOI fields for all the entries that don't have them? My current workflow is to just add citations as and when I need them with auctex in ...
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Publications not showing up using moderncv

I'm new to LaTeX, so I might be making a very simple mistake, but I can't seem to get my publications to show up on my CV. I'm using the moderncv and multibib packages and MiKTeX. Here's a simplifi: ...
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beamer: Scaling document icons in the bibliography

Bibliographies can be typeset in a smaller font size by redefining the \bibfont macro (if one uses natbib or biblatex) or by simply appending the definition of \thebibliography. This also works with ...
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Page header - Upper and lower case

First of all: this is the first time that I use LaTeX. I have these commands that create my header: \usepackage[headsepline,plainheadsepline]{scrpage2} \pagestyle{scrheadings} \clearscrheadfoot ...
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Underline different authors in the bibliography by hacking BST file [duplicate]

I am updating my CV (moderncv) and I am including a list of all my communications (oral and poster) using multibib (I use different .bib files for each one). The final output should display my name ...
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Unable to generate references using .bib in Texlipse

I'm writing a LaTeX file using Texlipse. So here is my LaTeX file: \documentclass[10pt,psfig,letterpaper,twocolumn]{article} \usepackage{geometry} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{setspace} ...
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XIV pages in page counts?

Is it possible to make biblatex output page counts for both the regular pages and the roman-numbered pages, for example: Cook, Theodore Andrea. The Curves of Life : Being an Account of Spiral ...
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How can I get the style alpha.bst sorted as plain.bst in Bibtex?

I like alphanumerical citations written as in alpha.bst style, with initials of authors and years, but I would like references to appear sorted as in plain.bst style. As an example, I prefer the order ...
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Typeset references without newlines between entries [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Reduce bibliography to one line Is it possible to typeset references without inserting a new line between items, i.e. to make the references section look something like: ...
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What is the interface between LaTeX and BibTeX?

Precisely what is the "protocol" between LaTeX and BibTeX? That is, if I run latex foo, bibtex foo, and latex foo, exactly how does information flow from LaTeX to BibTeX and back? My current guess ...
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Problem with refcheck

The following code does not do what it should: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{refcheck} \begin{document} \begin{thebibliography}{1111} %% This works: \bibitem[Ccc]{FP} The Frog, Kermit, and ...
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How to cite OMG specifications?

I have to cite several OMG standards and specifications in a paper, such as MOF, UML, etc. What's the best BibTeX entry format to do so? These are not articles or conference papers. They are not ...
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Elegant way to make entire citation bold

Is it possible to make an entire reference appear bold in the references section when using BibTeX? I'm using the IEEE templates and .bst. I found this related question, but is there a more elegant ...
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Manual bibliography, separated or multiple parts

I'm creating a manual bibliography, but it needs to be divided into sections. The solutions I thought might be applicable: Add \textbx{"Literary works"}, \textbx{"Web references"}, etc. between ...
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Replace or remove bibliography numbers

I'm using a simple bibliography like this ... \nocite{*} \bibliographystyle{acm} \bibliography{refs} ... and I would like to either replace the numbers ([1], [2], ...) in front of each reference ...
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How to manage reference efficiently? refworks or jabref or anything else?

When I do research, I often write papers in LaTeX (in most cases) and Microsoft Word. My question is how to manage hundreds or even thousands of papers efficiently and effectively? I know several ...
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Natbib author-year citation style in the tufte-book class

I'm using the tufte-book class and I like it so much! However, I'd like to have the references in the natbib-way, so that I can use both textual (\citep) and parenthetical (\citep) citations. I ...
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Adding text between Bibliography header and the first bibitem

I want to add text in to the Bibliography right after the header and before the first bibitem, so that it is structured as in the following: References and further reading This and that can ...
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Get BibTeX to ignore citation numbering in a figure caption

Here's the problem. I have the main text of a document which includes a citation late in the document, say \cite{ref20}. One of my figure captions has in it, the \cite{ref20}. What happens is that ...
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Combine reference citations

I would like the reference citation to appear like [1-4], rather than [1], [2], [3], [4]. Here is my MWE \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book} \begin{document} Some text \bibliographystyle{unsrt} ...
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two documents sharing same reference numbering

I am writing a scientific paper with supplementary information in an additional document. The paper and the supplement share many references, which in the paper are numbered by first appearance in the ...
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Using bibtool with biblatex

I'm trying to use bibtool to extract bibliography information from an aux file. I'm using this MWE: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents}{foo.bib} ...
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Adding bibliography to appendix

I thought it'll be kind of an easy task to add the bibliography to the appendix. However, after spending hours on it trying different solutions even some suggestions from this forum here I kinda of ...
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Clickable, bottom page reference ?! Possible ?

I'm new here but I see the place looks hyperactive. I guess I'll ask a lot in the next months. So new to LaTeX and starting my PhD thesis redaction. I got this template for a PhD thesis at ...