Bibtex

Bibtex is another powerful tool. Citations are made in the paper in the same way as above, however, instead of having to write out the references at the end of the document, the Bibtex program goes and looks them up in large bibliographies that we maintain. The papers in the bibliography can appear in any order, the program goes and finds the flag which was used in the citation, extracts the paper citation, formats the footnote appropriately and creates a .bbl file which contains the bibliography. If you reorder or renumber the references, simply rerun bibtex and the cross-references are all redone.

Bibtex is described in detail in most LaTeX manuals.

Group specific notes on Bibtex:

1. Maintain your own bibliography in the directory /u24/yourname/tex/bib/ with name firstfivelettersofyourfirstname##.bib, where ## is the year e.g., mine would be simon97.bib
2. Obtain a template for your bibliography from me.
3. As you read interesting papers, enter the information into the bibliography.
4. Use the convention for flags: first five letters of first author's last name, semicolon, abbreviation of publication, ## for year. For example, billi;prl96
5. citation example: this was described elsewhere~\cite{billi;prl96}
6. bibliography examples:

   @article{schif;prl95,
author = {P. Schiffer and A. P. Ramirez and W. Bao and S-W. Cheong},
title = {Low temperature magnetoresistance and the magnetic phase
diagram of La$_{1-x}$Ca$_{x}$MnO$_{3}$},
nb = {cmr},
journal = prl,
volume = {75},
pages = {3336},
year = {1995}
}
   

   @unpublished{tranq;cm96,
author = {J. M. Tranquada and J. D. Axe and N. Ichikawa
and A. R. Moodenbaugh and Y. Nakamura and S. Uchida},
title = {Coexistence of, and competition between, superconductivity
and charge-stripe order in La$_{1.6-x}$Nd$_{0.4}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$},
note = {unpublished},
nb = {hts, stripes, cond-mat9608048},
journal = prl,
volume = {77},
pages = {},
year = {1996}
}
   

   @book{wased;b;naoarxsfscodm84,
author = {Y. Waseda},
booktitle = {Novel Applications of Anomalous (Resonance) X-ray
Scattering for Structural Characterization of Disordered
Materials},
nb = {differential pdf book},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
address = {Berlin},
year = {1984}
}
   

   @misc{magnote,
note={The misc environment has no rules and is a trick to allow us
to place footnotes in the bibliography. This text will be
reproduced in the paper footnotes}
}
   

   @inproceedings{wrigh;b;mrsp95,
author = {A. C. Wright and B. Vessal and B. Bachra and
R. A. Hulme and R. N. Sinclair and A. G. Clare and D. I. Grimley},
nb = {review of neutron scattering and pdfs from network glasses},
booktitle = {Neutron Scattering for Materials Science II},
journal = {Mater. Res. Soc. Proc.},
volume = {376},
editor = {D. A. Neumann and T. P. Russell and B. J. Wuensch},
pages = {635},
year = {1995}
}
   

7. General notes:
   • Be very careful with syntax. Each field is separated with a comma. Arguments are enclosed in curly brackets unless they are predefined at the top of the document as a string, e.g., prl is defined as @string{prl = ``Phys. Rev. Lett.''} for convenience
   • First field is always the flag
   • Separate all authors with ``and''.
   • Use initials not full names for authors.
   • If you don't want to type all of the authors' names you can use ``others'', e.g., author = {R. G. DiFrancesco and others}. Be aware, that if you ever do cite this paper, you will have to type in the full author list. This is just a convenience for recording papers which were interesting but which you are not sure you are going to cite. Remember that it is easier to type the names in when you have the paper in your hand, rather than later when you want to cite it and have to go grubbing around to find it again. Only use this short-cut if you are fairly sure that you won't cite it, but don't want to lose all memory of it.
   • awkward names like W. Grommett, Jr. or compound names like J. Mustre de Leon should be enclosed in curly brackets to make sure that they appear correctly: {W.~Grommett} and {J.~Mustre de Leon}
   • the nb field never appears anywhere. Use this to make notes (short or long) to yourself about what the paper contained etc. There is a search utility called looktex which will be described later which searches your bibliography for strings. This is a good way of tagging all the papers on a particular subject. E.g., if you put cmr into the nb field of all papers on colossal magnetoresistance, you can do a search for cmr and get a list of all the papers in your biblio on CMR.
8. Article notes:
   • Title doesn't normally appear in Phys Rev Journals, but certain journals, and NSF grants do require a title, so enter the title in its entirity. Type it as if it were a TeX document (see example above).
9. Unpublished notes:
   • The note field will appear in the citation, so put in that anything that you want to appear.
   • The title will also appear in general, whereas often we don't want it to. In this case, it might be a good idea to place the title in another nb field and leave the title blank.
   • You can leave the journal, date, volume etc. fields in place, they will not appear in the citation but are useful when the unpublished paper appears and you want to turn it into an Article
   • Keep your bibliography up to date. When an article appears, change the Unpublished environment into an Aritcle one. It is essential to do this at least on all papers which are actually cited in a paper.
10. Misc notes:
    • see the example above for an explanation
11. Inproceedings/Inbook notes:
    • This environment can have a different title and booktitle (not surprisingly) for the paper and book respectively.
    • another nice feature of this is that the book can be defined once, and articles referenced from the book can be listed separately without redefining the book title, editors etc. every time. See the Latex manual for details.