How do I order citations by appearance using BibTeX?
By default (using th plain style) BibTeX orders citations alphabetically. How do I order the citations by order of appearance in the document? ...
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Odd Bibtex behaviour in a Latex document
I added a line "\cite{test}" as a test to my working Latex document. When I compiled the bibtex "!bibtex name_of_my_file, I got the expected error: Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "test" Then, I removed the line and compiled the bibtex again, hoping to have a working Latex file again. However, the same error occurs, eve...
How do I cite author in Latex?
How do I cite authors in Latex? I tried using natbib package ---- doc.tex ---- ... \usepackage{natbib} ... \citeauthor{736184} ... ---- doc.bib ---- @inproceedings{736184, author = {Broder, Andrei Z.}, ... but all I get is (author?) (in bold). ...
Editing multiple entries in Jabref
Is there a way to edit multiple Jabref entries? E.g. add the same data to an empty field, like "keywords", of multiple files? ...
Bibliography as section in LaTeX / BibTeX
I'm writing a short document using sections rather than chapters as the top-level (documentclass report). However, \bibliographystyle{amsplain} \bibliography{general} causes the bibliography to be inserted as a chapter rather than a section. Is there any way to change this? ...
Is there any RAK-WB style for bibtex?
RAK-WB is a specific bibliographical standard mostly for libraries in germany; the standard goes as follows: RAK-WB. However, there seems to be no bibtex package/style for this standard. Is there any RAK-WB style for bibtex or do I have to write it on my own? If so, what would be good tutorials/introductions to writing bibtex-style fil...
How do I create multiple entries in Jabref from bibtex data?
Suppose I have bibtex data for, say, 10 articles. Is there a way to, within jabref, create 10 entries from this? A solution is to just open the .bib file and paste the data in. ...
How to add a URL to a latex bibtex file?
I'm using bibtex for my bibliography in latex. I have some URL's I need to cite in the paper. How do I add URLs into the bibtex? A typical section in my bibtex file looks like this: @conference{eigenfacepaper, title={{Face recognition using eigenfaces}}, author={Turk, M. and Pentland, A.}, booktitle={Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer ...
How to edit the BibTeX .bst FUNCTION {format.names} ?
After trying several .bst files I am still mostly satisfied with the layout of the ChicagoReedWeb.bst file. However, I don't like the handling of entries by the same author, eg: link text If have looked at the ChicagoReedWeb.bst file but only understand some of the basics. So how can I edit the code of the ChicagoReedWeb.bst file in su...
Different encoding of latex and bibtex files.
Does LaTeX handle situation when a .bib file has different encoding than .tex file? For instance, .tex is in ISO-8859-2 and .bib in UTF-8. Can the encoding be converted on the fly by LaTeX? Or the only way is to do is manually? ...
Create own BibTeX style or customize existing one?
I'm looking for a way to define new BibTeX style or to customize existing one. I have two reasons for this: I want the author names/editors to be italic (for articles in book, book, magazines, encyclopedia etc) I want numbers at the beginning Example: Secondname, B. Book title. Place Year. Site number. Article author, A. Article ti...
References style without line breaks.
I'm writing a grant application and space is at a premium. I want LaTeX to print my references section without line breaks, so References [1] [2] [3] becomes References [1], [2], [3] I don't think the exact references style is too important (this is NSF), but I can't seem to find any bibliography style that will do this. ...
Convert bibliographic references from a document into bibtex or endnote
Hi, I got a text document (word or pdf) which has at the end a lot of bibliographic references. Do you know about some approach/program that can export them to bibtex or endnote? Thanks ...
What are some good BibTeX key conventions?
A common BibTeX key convention is last name of lead author followed by year (e.g. Knuth1972). Sometimes this choice is problematic: It could lead to key collisions due to authors with same last name or several publications by the same author in one year. It is hard to tell the subject of the publication from its BibTeX key when editing...
a bib style to capitalize book titles but not paper titles
I've heard that title capitalization in bibliography is the bibliography style's role (the bst file). Is there a bibliography style file that capitalizes book titles but not paper titles? For example, a paper title should be like Hello world and hello kitty a book title should be like Hello World and Hello Kitty bib style p...
Is there a way to override a bibtex style file for a particular entry?
My preferred bibtex style file cites via author's initials. However, there are various texts which should be cited differently (for example, Elements Geometrie Algebrique should always be cited as [EGA]). I know how to modify this in the .bbl file that bibtex outputs, but then I have to do this for every file. Is there a way to do this f...
Remove header from bibliography pages
I use this LaTeX code to add a bibliography section: \bibliographystyle{plain} \bibliography{bp} The first page looks fine. It contains the Bibliography title, no header and a list of citations. However on the next page is a header with the title of the previous section. Is there a way to remove this header? ...
Replace only within a XML tag; exporting from Referencer .reflib to bibtex format with filenames intact and URL-encoding removed, with a bash command
I have many references in Referencer. I'm trying to include filenames in my bibtex file when exporting from Referencer. Since the software doesn't do this by default I'm trying to use a sed command to include the filename as a bibtex information in the XML file before I export and thus include the filename. Input <doc> <filename>...
How to manually equalize columns in an IEEE paper if using BibTex?
IEEE conference publications in two-column format require authors to manually equalize the lengths of the columns on the last page of the final submission. I have typically done this by inserting a \newpage where necessary -- which usually ends up being somewhere amidst my (manually entered) references. However, I have recently begun us...
LaTeX \cite giving a [?]
in blah.tex , I have a \cite{blah} I have a 'blah' entry in blah.bib I run my file with : latex blah.tex && blah.tex && dvipdf blah.dvi The blah.pdf results in [?] How do I fix this? Thanks! ...