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OverviewThere are two methods for creating a bibliography. The first can be used for short documents with only a few sources,and is fairly simple. The second method is used for large documents and theses, and involves using a program called"bibtex".
Simple methodIf all of this seems complicated, there is a simpler way to produce a quick bibliography for your document. This can beused for smaller papers, ones that don't need a very extensive bibliography. Something like this will work fine:
\begin{thebibliography}{1}
\bibitem{notes} John W. Dower {\em Readings compiled for History 21.479.} 1991.
\bibitem{impj} The Japan Reader {\em Imperial Japan 18001945} 1973: Random House, N.Y.
\bibitem{norman} E. H. Norman {\em Japan's emergence as a modern state} 1940: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations.
\bibitem{fo} Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi {\em AntiForeignism and Western Learning in EarlyModern Japan} 1986: Harvard University Press.
\end{thebibliography}
You can put this at the end of your LaTeX file. If you want to refer to something from your bibliography you can putsomething like this in yourfile:
This is obvious \cite{norman}.
which would produce something like
This is obvious [2].
bibtexPretend that the file that we are using is called 'foo.tex'. To make a bibliography, we should put all our sources into afile called 'foo.bib'. The structure of foo.bib is as follows:
@BOOK{<some abbreviation that you make up>, AUTHOR = "author", TITLE = "book title", PUBLISHER = {publishing company}, ADDRESS = {where published}, YEAR = year published}
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For our sample document, we will use the following:
@BOOK{bar, AUTHOR = "Star, R. M.", TITLE = "Foo Bar Baz", PUBLISHER = {MIT Press}, ADDRESS = {Cambridge, MA}, YEAR = 1989}
Quotation MarksBIBTeX uses REAL quotation marks (") and NOT the opening and closing quotation marks (`` and'') that LaTeX normally uses.
Now, everytime you refer to the book Foo Bar Baz in foo.tex, you refer to it in the following manner:
\cite[p. 2] {bar}
This will match the citation number with the number of the book in the list of references.
If you have a few references that you did not explicitely cite in the text of your document, but you would like to include itin the list of references, you use the following (in foo.tex):
\nocite {baz,fuzz,bong}
where baz, fuzz, and bong are abbreviations for the other texts.
To actually create the bibliography, you need to use the following commands in foo.tex (these are usually at the end ofthe document where you want the References section to appear):
\bibliography{foo} \bibliographystyle{plain}
There are several options for \bibliographystyle:
plain normal style listed in ABC order and labeled numerically
unsrt same as plain except entries appear in order of citation
alpha same as plain except entry labels are used
abbrv same as plain except uses abbreviations for first names, month names, and journal names
Now that you have the basis for a bibliography, you have to run both latex and bibtex on the document. First, youshould run latex (to create a foo.aux file, which bibtex reads). Then run bibtex once to get some of the citations andcreate a .bbl file. Then run latex again so that the cross references between the text file and the bibliography arecorrect. You may want to repeat running bibtex and latex on the file to make sure that all cross references are correct.Be warned that adding/deleting citations and sources will require running bibtex again.
For more information on this topic, please refer the following pages in the LaTeX manual by Leslie Lamport:
7274 Bibliography and Citation 7474 BibTeX 140147 Format of the .bib File (also gives info on other entry types) 187188 Bibliography and Citation
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