Monday, January 04, 2010

BibTeX in 60 seconds

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Ok, so you just want to give it a whirl. No worries, just:

  1. Download a bibliography style file such as h-physrev3.bst, into the directory where your document is. (There are many options about - just look around the web.)
  2. Create your bibliography database file by downloading (into the directory where your document is) and editing the example file tau.bib.
  3. Remove any \begin{thebibliography} ... \end{thebibliography} commands from your document.
  4. Just before the \end{document} command, add
    \bibliographystyle{h-physrev3.bst}
    \bibliography{tau}
    (Alternatively, just download and edit this example file.)
  5. When processing the file, you need to do: latex filename, bibtex filename, latex filename, latex filename.
Another useful reference to this is in the Reed College.