{"id":969,"date":"2008-08-26T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2014-08-05T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:09:05","slug":"a-quick-dirty-bibtex-cheat-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/08\/26\/a-quick-dirty-bibtex-cheat-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick & Dirty BibTex Cheat-Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is just a quick guide to getting BibTeX to work in a LaTeX document. This is not meant to be an introduction to BibTeX for someone who’s never heard of it, but rather a cheat-sheet for those of us who don’t use it quite often enough to remember the details without a little help.<\/p>\n

First you need to create and manage your bibliography database (.bib<\/code> file). You could do this by hand, but if you’re on OS X I’d highly recommend BibDesk<\/a>. Much simpler.<\/p>\n

Secondly, you insert citations in the document using the \\cite{}<\/code> command. Each entry in your bibliography database has a separate citation key<\/em>, you use this key to insert a reference. For example, if my bibliography database contained a reference with a citation key ‘Busschots2008’ I’d insert a citation to that reference with the command: <\/p>\n

\n\\cite{Busschots2008}\n<\/pre>\n
Thirdly, you need to include your bibliography in your document. To do this you need to set a style for it, and then include it. If you’re not sure what style to use start with plain<\/em>. Assuming your bibliography database is in a file called Sample.bib<\/code>, you’d include it with the following code (notice that you don’t add .bib<\/code> to the end of the file name):<\/p>\n
\n\\bibliographystyle{plain}\n\\bibliography{Sample}\n<\/pre>\n
Finally, to render the document you now need to run your document through both BibTex and LaTeX in the following order:<\/p>\n
    \n
  1. latex<\/code><\/li>\n
  2. bibtex<\/code><\/li>\n
  3. latex<\/code><\/li>\n
  4. latex<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    This is just a quick guide to getting BibTeX to work in a LaTeX document. This is not meant to be an introduction to BibTeX for someone who’s never heard of it, but rather a cheat-sheet for those of us who don’t use it quite often enough to remember the details without a little help. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[489,490,458],"series":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech","tag-bibtex","tag-latex","tag-tutorial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-fD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7486,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}