{bibtex} is specifically about Oren Patashnik's BibTeX program, its .bib database file format, and use of these in creating documents. For general questions about bibliographies and citations, use {bibliographies} instead.
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Extract all citations from .tex file
Is there a fool-proof way to extract all bibtex citation-keys that are cited in a .tex file?
I do not mean regular-expression magic on the .tex-file because this is bound to cause problems when ...
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Biblatex: How can I get the label [BvB60] instead of [BB60] for an article by “Bach and van Beethoven (1760)”?
I'm using the alphabetic style of biblatex as follows:
\usepackage[
style=alphabetic,
maxcitenames=3,
minnames=3,
useprefix=true
]{biblatex}
In the .bib-file, I have an entry:
...
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Space after et al. too big
I have a document as
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibpunct{(}{)}{,}{a}{}{;}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\NAT@nmfmt}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
According to ...
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BibTeX equivalent with CiteULike support?
There was recently a question about finding BibTeX formatted citations, which listed CiteULike. I would love to take the shortcut, and replace the BibTeX executable with cultex, which takes CiteULike ...
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dash instead of repeated author name
I am using the natbib package with a bibliography style very similar to humannat. I would like to get a long dash instead of the full author name in multiple references where the author is the same. I ...
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Bibtex reverse numbering
For my CV, I would like to reverse number publications (i.e., starting from the total number of publications all the way down to 1). Is this possible with plain LaTeX and BibTeX?
This question is ...
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No hyper refs from citation to bibliography using BiBTeX, hyperref and harvard
I am trying to get internal hyperrefs from citation to the bibliography page.
I am using BiBTeX, the harvard package, the hyperref package with optional [hidelinks].
The latter works fine to me on the ...
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How to place a full citation in the abstract using BibTeX?
This question is similar to this one but not exactly the same.
I would like to include a reference in the abstract of a paper. This reference should be the full reference, not a key, and it should ...
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BibTeX with Plain TeX
The manpage of bibtex says that it can be used with both LaTeX and TeX. However, I did not find any resource how to do it and also no TeX book of mine explains it. Can someone provide a minimalistic ...
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Converting from biblatex to BibTeX format using biber
I wish to use biblatex+biber, in large part because of its data format (xdata!), but often need to use .bst-based bibliography styles. I am aware that biber --tool allows conversion of .bib-files. ...
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Is it possible to have back references after each chapter with a single main.bib file?
I'm using LaTeX + BibTeX to write my dissertation. I have one separate .tex file for each chapter. And I'll generate one bibliography for each chapter. But all the references are from the same file ...
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Accented (French) characters in BibTeX database
I am having some difficulty using French letters in my LaTeX document. In my bibliography, I have this reference:
@article{CLDM03,
title={A Cinematography System for Virtual Storytelling},
...
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Citing a Series of Articles with BibTeX
I use BibTeX and BibDesk to manage my bibliography. What I would like to do is cite a series of articles with only one citation in the bibliography. This seems to have become fairly standard practice ...
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“and” in Author Name
I was sure to find the answer to this rightaway, but somehow it didn't show up. I'm trying to add an organization as an author with "and" inside the name.
Like:
@MISC{secfindings,
author = ...
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Two Bibliographies: one for main text and one for appendix
I have a manuscript in which has the following structure:
Main Text
Bibliography
Appendix
However, there are citations which are only cited in the appendix, and they show up in the main ...
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How does BibTeX sort references?
How does LaTeX sort references as it is causing the first reference I have used to be numbered as [2] in the document rather than [1]. See below:
Technology has been introduced in various ways within ...
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Bibliography entry out of alphabetical order with character Ş
I'm pretty new to TeX so please forgive me if this requires just a simple solution. I'm writing a thesis that uses almost 100% English characters exclusively, except for a case where an author I cite ...
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How to quickly convert a single BibTeX reference into a formatted reference?
I contribute a bit to various forums and Stack Exchange sites and I often want to cite a journal article that I've found from a quick search on Google Scholar.
Google Scholar allows for easy exporting ...
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Advantages of EndNote over BibTex, if any
Strictly speaking, this is not a LaTeX question. However, I suspect it will be very interesting to LaTeX users.
What are the advantages of using a commercial reference management system like EndNote ...
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Command line tool to extract .bib entry by key?
I'd like a tool that, when given a .bib file and a key from that file as inputs, outputs a plain text rendition of the full entry. For example:
bib.bib
@Article{tversky83,
author = {Amos Tversky ...
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Preserve lowercase in bibtex
I'm using mla-paper package. the name Ferdinand de Saussure in bibliography gets shown as De Saussure, Ferdinand. But I want de in lowercase like so: de Saussure, Ferdinand. In citations it gets shown ...
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Pass variable from LaTeX to bibtex (for easy anonymization)?
I typically use a variable for my name in .bib bibliography entries, for instance:
@String {myname = "Prof. Dr. Hortensia Audactor"}
String {myname = "Anonymized" }
@article{audactor2005pflanzen,
...
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How can I number the references in a bibliography irrespective of their order of appearance in a document?
I'm putting together a linguistics bibliography using lsalike.bib and lsalike.sty. I'm generating it by using \nocite{*} and would like the references to be numbered (but kept in the usual order).
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Preserving capitalization in BibTeX titles
I use the LaTeX wikibook a lot and found this solution to preserving capitalization in titles, which is to wrap letters (or whole titles) in curly braces. The phrase "In the event that BibTeX has been ...
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Is it possible to use sql database for BibTeX?
I have and extensive database with references in form of an SQL database. How can I use this information in BibTeX?
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Tool to visualize connections between bibtex entries
I'm searching a tool to visualize connections between bibtex entries, for example same autor, references, same conference etc. The Visual Explorer from Microsoft has this feature, but I want to create ...
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Configuring TexMaker and BibTex
I'm using Windows 7 and just installed Texmaker.
Is it possible to configure it in such a way that I can run Latex -> BibTex -> Latex -> Latex?
I looked at the configuration options here:
I tried ...
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BibTeX: citing both translation and the original
I use BibTeX, the standard bibliography style "alpha". I wish to cite an article in Russian. The work has been translated into English, and I expect the majority of the readers will want to read the ...
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Problem with compiling BibTex: “no \citation commands” error
I'm really new to BibTex, I just wonder what is going wrong when I have this kind of error when I try to compile my bibliography file.
I found no \citation commands---while reading file ...
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Alternatives to bibtex2html
As the title says, are there viable alternatives to bibtex2html for converting bibliographic entries to HTML?
I am specifically looking for some command-line utility allowing to export a bib files ...
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How to use a non-ASCII character, such as a Greek letter, in bibtex?
This is the title of the journal article:
Verification of a sliding window protocol in µCRL and PVS.
This is the bibtex file for the same:
@article{journals/fac/BadbanFGPP05,
added-at = ...
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Elementary introduction to creating BibTeX styles?
Are there any good introductory references for the syntax to create a BibTeX style (.bst) file, whose ease of reading is closer to an introductory text for a programming language than to a formal ...
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Annoyance in emacs LaTeX mode involved with syntax highlighting
I'm using the following command in a LaTeX file to explicitly call a style file:
\bibliographystyle{$BSTINPUTS/IEEEtran}
Unfortunately emacs detects this as me entering math mode, but the latex ...
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Multiple bibliographies
I have the following:
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
\include{chapter1}
\include{chapter2}
\end{document}
I also have a reference.bib file, with entries book1, book2 and book3.
...
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' symbol in BibTeX style file
I'm trying to read about .bst files from Tame the Beast. On page 38, there is this example for an and function:
FUNCTION {and}
{ 'skip$
{ pop$ #0 }
if$
}
What does the ' in front of skip ...
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Two questions on biblatex: impression vs. edition & editorial roles
A: I've come accross quite a few books which state in the frontmatter that the book which I am holding in my hands is not the first edition of 1982 but (example 1) a "new impression with new ...
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How do I make a bibtex style file compatible with natbib author citations
I'm trying to convert my manuscript to PloS Comp Bio style. They provide a BibTeX style file. This works fine for inline citations with \usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib} (i.e. ...
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Why do “in prep” papers behave differently from “year'd” ones?
Someone asked me to troubleshoot a LaTeX+BibTeX document. The problem, I've found, boils down to an abuse of the author-year system in the citations in the following way:
@article{W1,
author = ...
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Using BibTeX with letter class
I'm trying to use BibTeX with a letter; I hope this is not too eccentric. The letter class doesn't have BibTeX support, though. I found Environment thebibliography undefined when using letter. ...
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biblatex: per-entry language switching
According to biblatex manual (p.24), the hyphenation field in a bib-entry switches language on per-entry basis:
hyphenation field
The language of the bibliography entry. The identifier must be ...
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Can I have two different styles of bibliography in the same document?
It is possible in the same document, change the style of bibliography?
I want the bibliography by chapters arranged in order of appearance. (I use unsrt), but I want the general bibliography in ...
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BibTex/Natbib: References with exactly three authors require all authors on first occurence and first author et al on further occurences
I'm writing a paper for a journal (MNRAS, the UK Royal Astronomical society journal) which requires that when I cite any papers with exactly three authors, I need to give the full author list at the ...
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bibtex: URL and DOI line breaks on different characters
In my references, I want to allow DOI's to break on a slash '/' character (or as a last resort on any character) to avoid underfull lines like the third reference below. Note that URL's are already ...
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What is the proper way to represent a talk at a conference (with no proceedings) in BibTeX (hopefully via Zotero)?
I use zotero to manage my bibliography, and export collections to BibTeX when I'm writing in LaTeX. I use apacite as my style (I'm a psychology student).
I have a citation that should end up looking ...
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Statistics about your bibtex database
Does somebody know how can you do some data mining of your Bibtex database? For example, some statistics about the number of papers per journal, author or year; stuff like that. Is there a tool or a ...
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bibtex author field: multiple spellings
I have an author who has a cryllic spelling and a romanized spelling. Thus, I'd like him to be listed in the bibliography as:
Alexander Pushkin (Алекса́ндр Пу́шкин).
However, hacking around with the ...
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Print Bibliography Only
I need to generate my references separately from the main document (i.e., one pdf with the content and one with the bibliography). I achieved this the following way:
To generate the pdf lacking ...
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How to convert .bib generated by Mendeley for use with amsrefs
I'm using TeX live 2010.
I have a .bib file generated from Mendeley, and
I want to use that with amsrefs, but it's confusing and
the amsrefs documentation is somewhat hard to follow:
how do I ...
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How to use a command-line tool to extract a bibtex reference that contains a search term?
I'd like to be able to use a tool like grep to extract an entire bibtex reference rather than just the matching line.
For example, grep Smith mydatabase.bib would return lines that contain the word ...
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German Umlauts in Bibtex
I have the following BibTeX source
@INPROCEEDINGS{Lincke2008,
author = {Rüdiger Lincke and Jonas Lundberg and Welf Löwe},
title = {Comparing software metrics tools.},
booktitle = {ISSTA},
...
