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- environment, LyX add a large vertical space, followed by the heading
+ environment, LyX adds a large vertical space, followed by the heading
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-For a detailed description of LyX's bibliography handling, have a look at
- in section
+There is another, usually better way to include references in your document,
+ namely, by using a BibTeX database.
+ For more information on that, and for a a detailed description of LyX's
+ bibliography handling, have a look at in section
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There are two ways of generating the bibliography in a LyX-document.
- You can include a bibliography database
+ You can include a bibliography database,
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-, which is explained in the next subsection or you can insert the bibliography
- manually.
- For the second method we use the paragraph environment
+ which is explained in the next subsection, or you can insert the bibliography
+ manually, using the paragraph environment
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-, described in section
+, which was described in section
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.
+ If you want anything other than numerical citations, such as the ones in
+ this document---in particular, if you want author-year cituations---then
+ you
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+ use BibTeX.
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+The Bibliography Environment
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Bibliography databases are useful if you use the same bibliography in different
documents.
- It makes it also very easy to have a uniform layout for all bibliography
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+They are also useful simply for keeping a database of articles and notes
+ concerning them.
+ Most of the programs mentioned below will allow you to store annotations
+ and reviews along with bibliographical information.
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+ It also makes it very easy to have a uniform layout for all bibliography
entries.
You can collect the bibliography of all relevant books and articles of
your working field in a database.
- This database can be used for different documents, because only the referenced
- entries of the database will appear in the bibliography list.
+ This database can be used for different documents, and only the entries
+ cited in a particular document will appear in the bibliography list for
+ that document.
+ This relieves you of the need to keep track of which articles and books
+ you have cited.
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- containing the bibliography in a special format.
+, containing the bibliography in a special format.
The format is explained in LaTeX books (
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).
- Normally one uses a special program to create and edit entries of the database.
- Under
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+ The file can be created using any text editor, but normally one uses a
+ special program to create and edit the entries in the database.
+ A list of such programs is maintained on the LyX wiki at
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-you find a list of programs for bibliography databases.
+.
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-The style file is a text file with the file extension
+The style file is a text file with the file extension
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- that declares the layout of all bibliography entries.
- Many publishers provide special style files, so that you don't have to
- take care of the layout.
+ that controls how the bibliography entries will appear.
+ Your LaTeX distribution should provide several of these, and many publishers
+ provide their own style files, so that you don't have to take care of the
+ layout.
+ It is, of course, possible to write your own style file, but this is something
+ of a black art and is recommended only for the very brave.
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+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+The courageous can look at the BibTeX documentation, which is available
+ on CTAN at
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+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+.
+\end_layout
+
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+
+
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-Inserting a citation reference works like described above.
+Inserting a citation reference works as described in the previous section.
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-To generate the bibliography from a database, the program BibTeX is used
- by LyX.
+LyX uses the program BibTeX to generate the bibliography from the database,
+ the program BibTeX is used by LyX.
This program can be controlled with options that you can add in LyX's preferenc
es dialog under
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