BIBTEX(1) Web2C 2012 BIBTEX(1)
NAME
bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX
SYNOPSIS
bibtex [-min-crossrefs=number] [-terse] auxname[.aux]
DESCRIPTION
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 bibliogra-
phy (.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 ibliography command, the entries specified by the cite and
ocite commands in the LaTeX or TeX source file. It formats the information from those entries according to instructions in a bibliogra-
phy style (.bst) file (specified by the ibliographystyle 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.
OPTIONS
The -min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of crossref required for automatic inclusion of the crossref'd entry on the citation
list; the default is two. With the -terse option, BibTeX operates silently. Without it, a banner and progress reports are printed on std-
out.
ENVIRONMENT
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 direc-
tory. Again, see tex(1). No special searching is done for the .aux file.
FILES
*.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.
SEE ALSO
latex(1), tex(1).
Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.
AUTHOR
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.
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