{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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bibtex part of author missing

I'm having a problem with author display for a statute - the author is 'City and County of San Francisco' but the output (using the apalike.bst style file provided by Elsevier) gives the author as ...
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No \citation, \bibdata, \bibstyle commands [closed]

I tried compiling a file that uses the fancytooltips package, according to Gonzalo Medina's answer at Showing the bibliographic entry in a popup when you hover over the citation key. I was able to do ...
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Can someone identify the bibliography style in this paper?

I really love the citation and bibliography style in this paper: http://www.aaai.org/Papers/IJCAI/2007/IJCAI07-243.pdf but can't find the style; the aaai one itself (which I thought it might be) ...
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Unable to Change References Section Title in moderncv

I'm attempting to write a CV using the moderncv document class with the following preamble: \documentclass[10pt,letter]{moderncv} % CV Theme Settings \moderncvtheme[black]{classic} % Font and ...
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changing point to colon for natbib

I am using bibtex/natbib, with apalike style. Bibliographic items appears in the following way in my .pdf file: Cox, D. (1972). Regression Models and Life-Tables. Journal of the Royal Statistical ...
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How can I use BibTeX to cite a web page?

I'm looking to cite a number of web pages using bibtex and I was wondering if there was a specific template of the form @<template name here> for doing that. If you could use the following ...
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Display collaboration with biblatex

I would like to display the "collaboration" field of biblatex when present, for example: @article{Aad2011150, title = "TITLE", author= {Aad, Georges and others}, collaboration = {ATLAS} ... } is ...
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BibTeX error in TexMaker {I couldn't open file name `test_bb.aux'}

I am using Mikitex + Texmaker for writing a IEEETrans paper and i am a novice in all this. I have a test file which I am using for understanding how to insert bibliography. Thus, I have two files ...
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apacite - citing websites with no author [closed]

So I'm trying to cite a website using apacite. According to my teacher, the output has to look like: New child vaccine gets funding boost. (2001). Retrieved March 21, 2001, from ...
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URL for “article” (and other) entries of the .bib file?

My .bib file contains the following entry: @Article{ LM11, title = "Name of paper", author = "Author A and Author B", journal = "Arxiv", year = "2011", url = "http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/..." ...
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Reference list and Bibliography [duplicate]

I am currently writing a paper and need to include both a reference list {with items i have cited throughout my text}, and a bibliography {with items i made reference too whilst doing the thesis ...
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Referencing user guide

Can someone help me to reference this user guide in LaTeX? I'm searching for a tutorial of how to reference a user guide, but can't find one. Does it fall in the category of article? MIT Java Wordnet ...
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Modifying bibliography items to have alias names

I defined the following macro: \newcommand{\cmdAlias}[2]{\defcitealias{#1}{#2}\citetalias{#1} \citep{#1}} Can I modify the .bib file such that the alias name is automatically retrieved from the ...
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Spacing Characters appearing in bibtex output

BibTeX has been giving me a weird output. I have the following entry in my .bib file: @book{nathanson, Author = {Melvyn B. Nathanson}, Title = {Additive Number Theory: the Classical Bases}, ...
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Cannot generate bibliography using TeXworks from MiKTeX

I am trying to generate a bibliography with no luck until now. I get an empty one. Here is my code. \documentclass[12pt,twoside, openright, a4paper]{report} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{cite} ...
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remove comma after the last author

I've finally manged to produce my custom \bibliographystyle (.bst) file. Below is the output (sample) of listed references. Is it possible to remove the comma after the last author (just before the ...
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Natbib executed and no reference [duplicate]

I'm using Texmaker and I've followed several websites saying about running latex then bibtex, then latex twice more but I get several errors trying latex and therefore use just pdflatex. When I run ...
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How do you remove the vertical distance between references in lyx?

Using LyX, a BibTeX file and the unsrt bibliography style. The program automatically leaves an empty line between each reference, wasting lots of space in the process! Is there any way to force LyX ...
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Bibtex questionmark instead of reference [duplicate]

Im writing my thesis in Latex, and I have run into some problems with Bibtex. This is my .tex file: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{natbib} \begin{document} \title{BibTeX in action} ...
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Generate .tex output from .bib file to cut and paste [duplicate]

I have a paper (written in Sci Word, but I think that's irrelevant) and I would like to format the bibliography to match a journal's style guide. The authors did the references manually, so I need to ...
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some bibtex references use names instead of numbers [closed]

I am using Bibtex for references. I use this same stucture for all my MISC entries however when I cite my references sometimes they will appear numbered e.g. [1] and sometimes they appear with the ...
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Convert a bibtex-using document to “raw” LaTeX?

I have to submit an article in tex form, but am not allowed to use bibtex. Unfortunately, I have already written the document with bibtex included (this is a telescope proposal I wrote for one ...
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Showing ISBN using IEEEtran.bst

I saw BibTex - Show ISBN number? where it says that IEEEtran.bst will show the ISBN data. I am using this in my thesis, but it does not show the ISBN data. Can you suggest what could be wrong or what ...
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REVTeX bibliography author initals

I am trying to get my bibliography in a REVTeX4.1 document to print out: Smith, PJ as the author instead of Peter John Smith (which of course is horrible if you're searching for ...
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How to list citing papers under each of my paper?

I have papers p1, p2, p3, .... Under each of them, i'd like to list papers that cite them: p1 [1] c11 [2] c12 ... p2 [1] c21 [2] c22 ... ... I can build *.bib files for each of my papers, but I ...
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BibTeX reference page appears at start of pdf from IEEE template

When using the IEEE template (LaTeX and BibTeX) the references page appears before the title page. Why is this? The LaTeX file: \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} % correct bad hyphenation here ...
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Insert hyphenation point in BibTeX using PDFLaTeX and hyperref

How to tell PDFLaTeX to make hyphenation in place where I want it to be? I have my document file: \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}\usepackage{hyperref} ...
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Citing multiple authors with alternate separator than “and” using BibTeX

I'm using LyX on Linux Mint 14 ... Using BibTeX with the apalike style and some modifications in the preamble, I've managed to get the bibliography as it should be except for one thing. When I cite a ...
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Why Bibtex is giving me “Citation is undefined” error [closed]

Please help me out with this. I am very new to LaTeX. For some reason BibTeX is not working. I have read everything on it and tried the suggestions. But nothing seems to work and I have spent huge ...
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bibtex: author and editor inbook

In the .bst file, the inbook function looks like this: FUNCTION {inbook} { output.bibitem author empty$ { format.editors "author and editor" output.check } { format.authors ...
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How do I cite range of references? [duplicate]

I have to cite in LaTeX a range of sources (I'm using Miktex 2.9, TexnicCenter and Bibtex), all together. If I write ... in 1990 \cite{ref1,ref2,ref3,ref4,ref5} I would like to get "... in 1990 ...
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Elsarticle - number bibliography not working

I am trying to correctly format an article for Computers & Operations Research. They say I should use the "number" format to cite. I use elsarticle.cls and the documentation says that number ...
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ShareLaTeX Bibliography in ApJ format

I am trying to use ShareLaTex to compile my bibliography in the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) format. The document compiles in ApJ format just fine, but the bibliography is compiled in some generic ...
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How to produce a list of authors for a long BibTeX file?

I have over 500 entries in a single BibTeX file, and although this may sound like a general question, is there a way of seeing all the authors or references at a glance? Ie can I create a list of all ...
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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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Preserve line breaks/newlines when parsing bib file with biber

Since the answer to the original question is "This is not possible", my new question is: How do I write a shell script, in which I can define the original bib file, the fields in which new line ...
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Problem with natbib and agsm style not showing Vol No and Pp in references

I am using natbib with the agsm style, if i have an entry as; @article{Buchko2007, author = {Buchko, Aaron A.}, title= {The effect of leadership on values-based management}, year = {2007}, journal ...
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Cite Author and Number (Index)

How I can cite: Author [Number]?. For example: Wolsey [8]
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BibTeX, hyperref, natbib and very long (institutional) author names in references [closed]

Edit: having tried to make a MWE the issue I was having has gone away - so please disregard! I'm having trouble with a reference to a work by MIT, I have to cite this as "Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Defining keys (links) for quotations

I am trying to adapt keys to my bibliography section, but Latex still generates its own ones. My main file: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper, abstract=on, fleqn]{scrreprt} \usepackage{scrhack} ...
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How to hyphenate a reference that has a lastname with a hyphen?

I need to hyphenate a long lastname with a hyphen in it in a reference, e.g.: @article{LastHyphenName:2013xy, author = {Longlast-Namewithhyphen, Antonio and Anotherlastname, David}, title = {{How to ...
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change bib-style plaindin with fullstop at the end

I use the bibliographystyle plaindin. The resulting bibliography looks very much how I want it to be, but there are two problems: Having more than one author the output is author 1 ; author ...
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ACM siggraph conference bibtex is not working [closed]

I am writing a paper for acm siggraph and my bibliography file is not detected. In the .tex file, \nocite{*} \bibliographystyle{acmsiggraph} \bibliography{temp} The temp.bib file, ...
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URL in new line Bibtex

I'm being asked to put the url field in a new line after the reference information. Is there a way to do this using IEEEtran? Edit: Noting the initial suggestions, you can find the idea of the task ...
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Bibtex, what's behind the design decision for captial letters?

I recently found myself citing a particular paper: Google Scholar gives the automatic bibtex reference as: @ARTICLE{siu2010survey, author = {Siu, Elaine and Tam, Eric and Sin, Dorene and Ng, ...
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TeXlipse, bibunits, and multiple bibliographies

I am using Eclipse 4.2 with TeXlipse 1.5 (the version bundled with StatET 3.2) and MixTeX 2.9. I have no problem using TeXlipse, bibtex, and natbib to produce bibliographies. But I often want to ...
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Bibliography works but nothing inline [closed]

I'm using Latexian on Mac and have tried to cite inline using Bibtex. In preview mode, I get a question mark where the inline citation should be but the bibliography is fine. When I go to compile, I ...
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Change ieetr bibliography style to last name first

I'm using the ieeetr bibliography style for my references and I'm getting initials then last name, how would I change this to last name first? Here is what it looks like at the moment: [1] X. ...
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language in latex and in particular in biblatex [duplicate]

I write my thesis in French but some of my references are in German, English, and French. I use babel for the French but English titles are in French format! My document is this one: ...
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A question mark instead of reference number appears when \cite is in a separate file inlcuded in the main file by \include

I am using the book style and each chapter is put in a separate file and included in the main file by \include. At the end of the main file, I put the following lines: \bibliographystyle{plain} ...

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