Annotated Bibliography

Question

I'm trying to create an annotated bibliography. Here's my .tex document:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\title{Annotated Bibliography}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliography{annotatedbib}

\end{document}

And here is the associated .bib document:

@Misc{hacker,
    AUTHOR = `{Andrew Hacker'},
    TITLE = {Is Algebra Necessary?},
    HOWPUBLISHED = {New York Times},
    MONTH = {July 31},
    YEAR = {2012},
    ANNOTE = {This article was published in the New York Times.},
}

No matter into which format I compile my .tex document, the annotation will not show up! Is there something that I'm missing?

Answer 1

You should use a bibliography style that does annotations; for instance annotate.bst:

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@Misc{hacker,
    AUTHOR = {Andrew Hacker},
    TITLE = {Is Algebra Necessary?},
    HOWPUBLISHED = {New York Times},
    MONTH = {July 31},
    YEAR = {2012},
    ANNOTATE = {This article was published in the New York Times.},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\title{Annotated Bibliography}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliographystyle{annotate}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

Note that the field should be called annotate, not annote; here's the output. The filecontents* environment is just to keep the example selfcontained, you can continue to use an external file.

Another style that does annotations (with the annote field) is chicago-annote that requires \usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}.