Introduction to Scientific Typesetting Lesson 8: BibTeX
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1. The biblatex package Introduction The basics The package options The bibliographic database Basic citation commands Using biblatex with MLA citation style All of the entry types that we learned with BibTeX will still work here An added and helpful entry type is online online Required fields author editor title year date url Also the url field is valid for all entry types now So if you find a journal article online you could use the article type with the url field Any date field should be entered in yyyy mm dd format and date ranges should be entered as yyyy mm dd yyyy mm dd 21 Basic citation commands An Overview BibTeX The biblatex package Introduction The basics The package options The bibliographic database Basic citation commands Using biblatex with MLA citation style l ve posted the full list of these but here are the basics Basic syntax of the commands command prenote postnote keys cite standard citation in square brackets parencite enclose citation in parentheses footcite put citation in footnote textcite to be used in place of subject of sentence See posted document for more Open the third example file tex build and view Make sure that the example3 bib file is in the same folder 22 Using biblatex with MLA citation style You ll need this in the preamble usepackage style mla biblatex All of the standard bi2. Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package For the BOOK entry type required author or editor title publisher year optional edition series volume number address language BOOK diaz author Junot D iaz title The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao publisher Riverhead Books address New York year 2008 An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package For the ARTICLE entry type required author title journal year pages optional volume number language note article sharkey title The Ethical Frontiers of Robotics author Sharkey N journal Science volume 322 number 5909 pages 1800 1801 year 2008 A Website An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package There isn t any website entry option for BibTeX So we have to make use of another entry type we ll use misc In order to d
3. Introduction to Scientific Typesetting Lesson 8 BibTeX Ryan Higginbottom January 16 2012 An Overview An Overview Bi bTeX BibTeX l The biblatex The biblatex package package An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example BibTeX The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments Practice The biblatex package What is BibTeX An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package BibTeX is an application that runs alongside ATEX to assist the user in compiling bibliographies It especially shines if your bibliography is long What do you need to use BibTeX B A bibliographic database file this will have a bib extension This is where the bibliographic entries are located You need to create this file B A bibliographic style file this will have a bst extension You do not need to create this it will be provided Style Options P nra There are six options for now for bst files with which to concern yourself Most journals provide their own bst files to use What is BibTeX Style Options ads sorts accor
4. XnicCenter This is what we ll use On my own computer use JabRef which displays the database in an Excel like way and it makes things easy to add and view This is a free program and you may want to check it out on your own machine Bibliography entries start with and then the entry tyoe book article etc Each entry includes information from a number of fields The style you choose dictates which fields are printed and how things are formatted author journal publisher pages booktitle chapter series title number volume editor year This is just a small sample of the available fields Typing Entries An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package BibTeX takes care of all of the formatting so you don t need to worry about the punctuation that will be in the bibliography itself General syntax field Note that the braces and the comma are required Many bibliography styles convert titles to lowercase for all entry types If you want a letter to appear in uppercase put the word or the whole title in braces author Mc M ahon or author McMahon An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The
5. bTeX What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package Open the first example file tex Make sure that the math233 bib file is in the same folder as your tex file You need to proceed in this order Build LaTeX BibTeX under the Build menu then Current File Build LaTeX Build LaTeX View Gr um es quus More on the First Example An Overview Play around with the bibliography style wrote the file to call the EISE amsplain style but change this around What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics Change it to each of these one at a time and see how each one ma affects the formatting Example The Bibliography 1 unsrt Database e Typing Entries 2 alpha a 3 abbrv An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package The Bibliography Database An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package The bib file that stores your bibliography entries is really a text file and is thus editable using Te
6. blatex citation commands are permissible but the examples seem to use autocite the most Open the fourth example file tex build and view Make sure that the samples bib file is in the same folder 23
7. ding to name of author An Example plain bst More on the First labels are numbers Example The Bibliograph alphanumeric labels ium idi alpha bst p SESS sorting by labels A Book references sorted by order of appearance An Article unsrt bst l numeric labels A Website Completing This much like plain abbreviates first cup abbrv bst Concluding Comments names of authors journals months pack amsplain bst AMS version of plain The biblatex package 1 amsalpha bst AMS version of alpha The Basics An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package Suppose that you already have a bib file That s the hardest part Let s say that it s called works bib If you want to use the amsplain style these two lines go at the end of your document environment bibliographystyle amsplain bibliography works Each item in the bibliography database has a key just like with normal bibliographies We use the cite key command in the same way BibTeX will automatically place all cited works into your list of References You can also place non cited works into your References by using the nocite key command in the document An Example An Overview Bi
8. e use your bib file 3 BibTeX has a learning curve Be patient and work at it 4 have posted some documentation help on our web page Look under Miscellaneous Resources An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package Let s practice Open the second example file pdf and reproduce it You can either add your Bibliography entries to the old bib file or create a new one If you create a new one make sure that you tell TeXnicCenter to save it as the proper file type An Overview BibTex The biblatex package Introduction The basics The package options The bibliographic database Basic citation commands Using biblatex with MLA citation style The biblatex package 17 Introduction An Overview BibTeX The biblatex package Introduction The basics The package options The bibliographic database Basic citation commands Using biblatex with MLA citation style The biblatex package uses BibTeX but it changes the way the bibliographic entries and citations are processed One consequence is that there are a lot more of the widely used citation bibliography styles available for use with biblatex than previously covered Note This package is relatively ne
9. o this make sure that Nusepackagetur1 is in your preamble misc MLK title Martin Luther King Jr howpublished url http en wikipedia org wiki Martin_Luther_King_Jr note accessed on 01 16 2012 J Do not wrap the url in your file this is just a limitation of the slides Completing This Example An Overview BibTeX What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments gt Practice The biblatex package Add these three entries to the math233 bib file that we worked with earlier Add this line before Nbibliographystyle within the previous example file nocite diaz sharkey MLK Now go back through the four step process to build a PDF in TeXnicCenter When you view it make sure these entries show up properly in the bibliography Concluding Comments An Overview BibTex What is BibTeX Style Options The Basics An Example More on the First Example The Bibliography Database Typing Entries A Book An Article A Website Completing This Example Concluding Comments Practice The biblatex package A few notes 1 The command nocite within your document will include every entry from your bib file in your bibliography 2 One of the great advantages of BibTeX is the re use of references You can simply r
10. w first written in 2010 so there will likely be a lot more development on it in the next few years foresee biblatex becoming the dominant way to do bibliographies in ATEX over the next 5 10 years and I m hoping this will open the door for more in the social sciences and humanities to use TEX The basics An Overview To start you ll need the following in your preamble BibTex HN MON usepackagetbiblatex package Introduction 7955 Also in the preamble The package options The bibliographi aue RNbxbliopraphyistile Basic citation e commands exw Actually this just needs to be somewhere before where the MLA ctatonsye bibliography itself shows up in your tex file Then where you want your bibliography to appear you type printbibliography The package options An Overview When loading the package in the preamble you have several options that can be employed Nusepackage Loptions biblatex Introduction The bas s Some of these options include The package options BibTeX The biblatex package The bibliographic dan style name loads bibliography and citation style aic bibstyle name loads bibliography style voce ae citestyle name loads citation style have posted a list of the bibliography and citation styles that are available I simply made excerpts of the biblatex users manual 20 The bibliographic database An Overview BibTeX
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