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No `\citation`, `\bibdata` or `\bibstyle` command
There are two engines to read .bib files:
BibTex. This is the old one and is the default engine used by TeXmaker
Biber. This is the new engine and is used in my example
I find there are three ...
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How to adjust the line breaking in the bibliography?
This is a general problem of automatically generated bibliographies. Some bits of the bibliography entry may turn out to be unbreakable and if they happen to occur in the wrong place, overfull or ...
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How to cite one bibentry in full length in the body text?
If you are using BibLateX, you can just use the \fullcite command. for example:
\fullcite{kumar_exploiting_2010}
produces
from the bibtex:
@inproceedings{kumar_exploiting_2010,
title = {{...
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How can I use BibTeX to cite software?
This answer is an adapted copy of the original one provided by Pascal on SuperUser. It is copied here as a community wiki for archival purpose.
If you use the package biblatex, you can thus use the @...
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What is the impact factor of TUGboat?
We submitted TUGboat to Thomson Reuters (hope I'm remembering that right) some years ago, and got (as expected) no response whatsoever. Therefore I can only suppose that TUB's "impact factor" in ...
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\citep vs. \parencite
When you are using biblatex with the natbib compatibility option (natbib=true,) to ease transition between biblatex and natbib (or vice versa),
\citep is a compatibility alias for \parencite and
\...
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Place cited references into the footline of slide
If you want to stay with your manual bibliography, you could do something like
\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>{
\usetheme{default}
\usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}
\setbeamertemplate{...
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latexdiff with \cite commands gives output with apparently mismatched braces
Germot already provided a good answer.
However, it was not entirely satisfactory.
The -t CFONT option changes the formatting (it only uses colour, removing strike-out and underlining).
And while ...
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How to change a color of a specific citation?
... \hypersetup{citecolor=yellow}\cite{eg}\hypersetup{citecolor=blue} ...
should do.
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latexdiff with \cite commands gives output with apparently mismatched braces
This year (2020) LaTeX underwent some internal changes that introduce incompatibilities with some packages. It seems that ulem.sty is one of them, with the current version ulem 2019/11/18 pre-dating ...
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How to get title of a citation?
The \citetitle in biblatex prints also markup, if you just way the raw title printed use \citefield:
\citefield{my-referenc}{title}
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Bad bibtex entries using InBook
The inbook entry type is designed for referring to a chapter of a book with a single author or set of authors. This is why you receive the warning in your first example: you can't have both an author ...
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How do I cite author in LaTeX with BibLaTeX?
Biblatex yields the \citeauthor and \Citeauthor commands, and starred variants.
From the package's documentation (§ 3.8.5, p.97):
These commands print the authors. Strictly speaking, it prints the ...
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A design question: citation commands
Design question and especially why questions are always a bit tricky to answer unless you are the developer or there is extensive documentation about the decision process during development. Without ...
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Finding errors in a large book
As Phelype says the error is on line 171 (almost certainly the last line) of PaPCh11.aux as that file is re-created every time you run latex, you can delete it and just run latex again.
By far the ...
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Citation Style Language (CSL)
Edit:
citeproc-lua now contains it's own LaTeX package, it added support for BibTeX files and it uses the normal LaTeX citation commands. It is available on CTAN, so you can install it using tlmgr.
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How to change color of hyperref?
Use following. You can change colour as per your choice.
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
colorlinks=true,
linkcolor=blue,
filecolor=blue,
citecolor = black,
...
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Citation Style Language vs. biblatex (vs. possibly other "citing-systems"?)
Update
People who are interested in using CSL with LaTeX may want to have a look at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/citation-style-language. See for example https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/618815/35864.
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\cite without bibtex
The argument of every \cite instruction -- the "citation key" -- in the body of the document must correspond exactly to the mandatory argument of a \bibitem instruction in the thebibliography ...
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Cite Author's Full Name
Define your own command where the labelname, the one printed by biblatex on \citeauthor, becomes given-family, that is, the first and the last name.
\newrobustcmd*{\citefirstlastauthor}{\AtNextCite{\...
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Twin reference in wrong order
You can fix the issue without changing the bst file (and making the copy editors happy, if you're submitting the paper and apalike is the required bib style). The sorting order, when the same list of ...
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Citet command not an option for Biblatex
Most biblatex styles offer a variety of citation commands. You can find what all standard styles and therefore most contributed styles do in §3.8 Citation Commands and its subsections, pp. 100-110, of ...
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How to generate a bibliography with pandoc?
I was able to generate the bibliography by adding --citeproc:
pandoc --bibliography=test.bib --citeproc -o test.pdf test.md
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Selectively turn off hyperref links for citations
Heiko's answer is great. However, it doesn't work inside captions, for instance. To make it work, use:
\newcommand*{\nolink}[1]{%
{\protect\NoHyper#1\protect\endNoHyper}%
}
The curly braces inside ...
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utmthesis error: You can't pop an empty literal stack for entry
The bibliography style needs the month field.
It erroneously calls skip$ instead of pushing an empty string literal in line 538.
The function should be:
FUNCTION {format.month}
{
month empty$
{...
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Formatting et al in biblatex
Probably the simplest way is to define:
\DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{%
andothers = {\textbf{et al}\adddot}
}
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[maxcitenames = 2]{biblatex}
\...
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How to change a color of a specific citation?
I like my option slightly better because you don't need to worry about the previous colour:
\newcommand{\citeColored}[2]{{\hypersetup{citecolor=#1}\cite{#2}}}
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How to customize bibtex numbering in a document?
You can first prepare your bibliography in the usual way. Then you can set the numbers you prefer in the way shown below, by adding the code between %%START and %%END.
The filecontents environment is ...
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How to write "(e.g. Surname, 2018)" with apacite?
The apacite package supports two sorts of citation commands, its own version, or the natbib versions (loaded with the natbibapa package option.)
The citation commands support both a pre-note and a ...
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Finding errors in a large book
I have another thought. Did you mean that if you search for \cit, the editor will show you \cite together which you don't want. However when you write \cite, it often follows a par of curl bracket {......
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