GNU Info

(latex.info)Using BibTeX

---

Prev: \nocite Up: thebibliography

---

Enter node , (file) or (file)node

Using BibTeX
............

   If you use the BibTeX program by Oren Patashnik (highly recommended
if you need a bibliography of more than a couple of titles) to maintain
your bibliography, you don't use the `thebibliography' environment.
Instead, you include the lines

             \bibliographystyle{style}
             \bibliography{bibfile}

   where `style' refers to a file `style.bst', which defines how your
citations will look. The standard styles distributed with BibTeX are:

`alpha'
     Sorted alphabetically. Labels are formed from name of author and
     year of publication.

`plain'
     Sorted alphabetically. Labels are numeric.

`unsrt'
     Like `plain', but entries are in order of citation.

`abbrv'
     Like `plain', but more compact labels.

   In addition, numerous other BibTeX style files exist tailored to the
demands of various publications.

   The argument to `\bibliography' refers to the file `bibfile.bib',
which should contain your database in BibTeX format. Only the entries
referred to via `\cite' and `\nocite' will be listed in the
bibliography.