bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX
bibtex [
-min-crossrefs=number] [
-terse]
auxname[
.aux]
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for
this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
Web2C: A TeX
implementation.
BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (
.aux) file
auxname that was
output during the running of
latex(1) or
tex(1) and creates a
bibliography (
.bbl) file that will be incorporated into the document on
subsequent runs of LaTeX or TeX.
BibTeX looks up, in bibliographic database (
.bib) files specified by the
\bibliography command, the entries specified by the \cite and \nocite commands
in the LaTeX or TeX source file. It formats the information from those entries
according to instructions in a bibliography style (
.bst) file
(specified by the \bibliographystyle command, and it outputs the results to
the
.bbl file.
The LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with
BibTeX. Appendix B of the manual describes the format of the
.bib
files. The `BibTeXing' document describes extensions and details of this
format, and it gives other useful hints for using BibTeX.
The
-min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of
crossref
required for automatic inclusion of the crossref base entry in the citation
list; the default is two. To avoid these automatic inclusions altogether, give
this option a sufficiently large number, and be sure to remove any previous
.aux and
.bbl files. Otherwise the option may appear to have no
effect, since BibTeX will have added the citation for the base entry to the
.aux file, and nothing will remove it.
With the
-terse option, BibTeX operates silently. Without it, a banner
and progress reports are printed on
stdout.
BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined by the BSTINPUTS environment
variable for
.bst files. If BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses the system
default. For
.bib files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable if
that is set, otherwise the default. See
tex(1) for the details of the
searching.
If the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT is set, BibTeX attempts to put its
output files in it, if they cannot be put in the current directory. Again, see
tex(1). No special searching is done for the
.aux file.
- *.bst
- Bibliography style files.
- btxdoc.tex
- ``BibTeXing'' - LaTeXable documentation for general BibTeX
users
- btxhak.tex
- ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable documentation for
style designers
- btxdoc.bib
- database file for those two documents
- xampl.bib
- database file giving examples of all standard entry
types
- btxbst.doc
- template file and documentation for the standard
styles
All those files should be available somewhere on your system.
The host math.utah.edu has a vast collection of
.bib files available for
anonymous ftp, including references for all the standard TeX books and a
complete bibliography for TUGboat.
latex(1),
tex(1).
Leslie Lamport,
LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley,
1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.
Oren Patashnik, Stanford University. This man page describes the web2c version
of BibTeX. Other ports of BibTeX, such as Donald Knuth's version using the Sun
Pascal compiler, do not have the same path searching implementation, or the
command-line options.