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Preparing a Bibliography with BibTeX
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-by
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-Mike Ressler
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- and
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-Jürgen Spitzmüller
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-STOP! If you don't know what BibTeX is, or have a reasonably good idea of
- how to use it (
+Tha basics how to use BibTeX are explained in section
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-e.
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-g.
+Bibliography databases (BibTeX)
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-
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-setting up your own bibliographic databases),
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-run
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-, do not walk, to your nearest copy of the 2nd edition of Lamport's
-\emph on
-LaTeX: A Document Preparation System
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-, particularly Appendix B.
- The rest of this discussion assumes you have created a correct bibliography
- file, that you have all relevant environment variables set correctly (esp.
-
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-BIBINPUTS
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-,
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-BSTINPUTS
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-, and
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-TEXINPUTS
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-), and that if sufficiently desperate, you could create and
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-TeX
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- a LaTeX file with a BibTeX database.
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-For those who don't know what BibTeX is, it is a system for creating a large
- database of your most used journal references.
- For all future articles you write, you only need to include this standard
- database and reference the appropriate key to each reference.
- Even if you write only a few papers with handful of references each, it
- is well worth your time to examine BibTeX and decide whether it will be
- useful to you.
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-
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-To use BibTeX with LyX, first read the
+ of the
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-User Guide
+User's Guide
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- where it describes how to insert citations.
- The basic mechanism for inserting BibTeX references is the same.
- Then, at the very end of your document, select
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-Insert\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-List
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- /
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-TOC\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-BibTeX Reference
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.
- In the resulting dialog, fill out the dialog boxes as follows:
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-\begin_layout Description
-Database: enter the name of your
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-.bib
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- file
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-without
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- the
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-.bib
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- extension.
- For searching multiple
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-.bib
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- files, just enter them in the desired order, separated by commas.
-
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-
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-Style: enter the name of your BibTeX style file *without* the
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-.bst
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- extension.
- The default style is
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-plain
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- (which should be included in your LaTeX distribution, so you don't have
- to worry about creating it).
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-
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-For each citation, assuming that the source is in the
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-.bib
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- file, just call
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-I
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-nsert\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-
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-itation Reference
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- at the correct location in the text, and enter the appropriate reference
- key.
- Nothing else is required; when invoking
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-, for example, you should see that BibTeX and LaTeX are invoked as needed,
- including multiple invocations of LaTeX.
-
+ The following subsections explains special bibliography features supported
+ by LyX.
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The handling of both packages in LyX is basically the same.
Go to
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-ettings
+Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Settings
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- and select the
+ and select under
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Bibliography
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- pane (with the xforms frontend: the
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-Extras
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- tab).
- Then select
+ the option
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Natbib
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Sectionated Bibliographies
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-LatexCommand label
-name "sub:Sectionated-Bibliographies"
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Sometimes you might need to divide your bibliography into several sections.
- If you are, for instance, a historian, the possibility to separate sources
+ If you are for instance a historian, the possibility to separate sources
and scientific works is most likely a
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.
Unfortunately, BibTeX itself does not allow you to do this.
- The good news is, though: With the help of some LaTeX packages, BibTeX
- can be extended to fit your historical needs.
+ But with the help of some LaTeX packages, BibTeX can be extended to fit
+ your needs.
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-As of version 1.4, LyX provides native support for one of these packages,
- Stefan Ulrich's
+LyX provides native support for one of these packages,
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bibtopic
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Available from
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+status open
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-In LyX, go to
+Go in LyX to
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-D
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-ocument\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-
-\bar under
-S
-\bar default
-ettings
+Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Settings
\family default
- and select the
+ and check under
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Bibliography
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- pane (with the xforms frontend: the
-\family sans
-Extras
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- tab).
- Check
+ the option
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-Sectionated
+Sectioned
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bibliography
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.
- Now you can insert multiple BibTeX references (as described in section
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-LatexCommand ref
-reference "sec:Preparing-a-Bibliography"
-
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-
-), one for each section of your bibliography.
- Returning to our example: Insert a BibTeX reference for the database
+ Now you can insert multiple BibTeX bibliographies, one for each section
+ of your bibliography.
+ Returning to our example: Insert the BibTeX bibliography
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sources.bib
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bibtopic
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package, which is used for the creation of sectionated bibliographies in
- LyX (cf.
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-section
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-
-
-\begin_inset CommandInset ref
-LatexCommand ref
-reference "sub:Sectionated-Bibliographies"
-
-\end_inset
-
-), provides an easy way to solve this task, if you are willing to use some
- LaTeX-Code (ERT, cf.
+ LyX (see the previous section), provides an easy way to solve this task,
+ if you are willing to use some LaTeX-Code (ERT, cf.
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\begin_layout Standard
-First, go to
+First go to
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-D
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-ocument\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-
-\bar under
-S
-\bar default
-ettings
+Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Settings
\family default
- and select the
+ and under
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Bibliography
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- pane (with the xforms frontend: the
-\family sans
-Extras
-\family default
- tab).
- Check
+ check
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-Sectionated
+Sectioned
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\end_inset
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.
In the document, you have to enclose the sections, which shall contain
- their own bibliography (including the BibTeX reference itself), between
+ their own bibliography (including the BibTeX bibliography itself), between
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(those commands have to be inserted as ERT).
The bibliography will contain all references which have been cited in the
current btUnit.
- N.
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-B.: If you are using this approach, then
+
+\series bold
+Note:
+\series default
+ If you are using this approach, then
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every
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LyX allows you to include files quite easily with
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-ChiI
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are conserved, unlike LyX's normal treatment of spaces.
However, setting the
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-M
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-ark
+Mark
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environments---and have the QED symbol appear only after them, then the
other environments need to be nested within the proof environment.
See section
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+Nesting Environments
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of the
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User's Guide
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When the
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menu option is chosen, a LaTeX file is generated.
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The converters are defined in the
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panel, under the
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tab.
See section
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of the
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See section
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