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\chapter{Citations and Bibliographies}
This chapter is an edited form of the same chapter from {\em How to 
\TeX{} a Thesis: The Purdue Thesis Styles} by James Darrell McCauley and
Scott Hucker.

The task of compiling and formatting the sources cited in papers can
be quite tedious, especially for large documents like theses.  A program
separate from \LaTeX{}, called ``\BibTeX{},''can be used to automate this task~\cite{lamport}.

\section{The Citation Command}
When referring to the work of someone else, the {\tt \verb|\cite|} command is used.
This generates the citation in the text for you.  In the above paragraph, the command
{\tt \verb|\cite{lamport}|} was used after the word ``task.''  The formatting of your
citation is handled by either the document style or a style option.  The default citation
style uses the number system (a number in square brackets).  Other citation styles
may use the author-date system, (Lamport, 1986) or the superscript$^3$ system.

\section{Bibliography Styles}
The way that a reference is formatted in your bibliography depends on the bibliography
style, which is specified near the beginning of your document with the\break
{\tt \verb|\bibliographstyle{file}|} command.  The file {\tt file.bst} is the name of the 
bibliography style file.  Standard \BibTeX{} bibliography style files include {\tt plain},
{\tt unsrt}, {\tt alpha}, and {\tt abbrev}.  The bibliography style governs whether or not
references are sorted, whether first names or initials are used for authors, whether or 
not last names are listed first, the location of the year in the references (after the
author or at the end of the reference), {\em etc.}.  You may be required by your
department or major professor to follow as style for a particular journal.  If so, then you
will need to find a \BibTeX{} style file to suit your needs.  Most major journals have
style files.  If you cannot locate an appropriate \BibTeX{} style file, then choose the
one which is closest and then edit the {\tt .bbl} file by hand.  See Section~\ref{BBL}
for a brief discussion on the {\tt .bbl} file.  Some common, but non-standard \BibTeX{}
styles include
\begin{tabbing}
{\tt jacs-new.bstxxxx}\= {\em Journal of the American Chemical Society}\kill
{\tt acm.bst}\&gt;The Association for Computing Machinery\\
{\tt ieeetr.bst}\&gt; The {\em IEEE Transactions} style\\
{\tt jacs-new.bst}\&gt; {\em Journal of the American Chemical Society}
\end{tabbing}

\section{The Database}
The  {\tt \verb|\bibliography{file}|} command is placed in your input file at the location
where the ``List of References'' section\footnote{or ``Bibliography'' 
if {\tt \char92 altbibtitle } has been specified in the preamble.} would be.  It specifies the name (or names) of
your bibliographic data base, {\tt file.bib}.  An example entry in a \BibTeX{}
database is:
\begin{quote}\singlespace\tt\begin{verbatim}
@book{ lamport86 ,
     author =    "Leslie Lamport" ,
     title =     "\LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" ,
     publisher = "Addison--Wesley Pub.\ Co." ,
     year =      "1986" ,
     address =   "Reading, MA" 
}
\end{verbatim}\end{quote}

The citation key is the first field in this entry--- citing this book in a \LaTeX{}
file would look like
\begin{quote}\singlespace\tt\begin{verbatim}
According to Lamport~\cite{lamport86} ...
\end{verbatim}\end{quote}
The tilde ({\tt \verb|~|}) is used to tie the word ``Lamport'' to the citation
generated.  The space between these words is then unbreakable---the word ``Lamport''
and the citation \cite{lamport} will not be split across two lines if they happen to occur
near the end of a line.

A listing of all entry types with their required and optional fields is given in 
Appendix~\ref{bibrefs}. There are several tools which exist to help in editing a \BibTeX{}
file, however, their use is beyond the scope of this manual and can be found by searching
the net.  You can simply use a plain text editor like {\tt vi} or {\tt WordPad} to edit
and create the database files.

There are several rules which you must follow when creating your database.  Authors are
always listed by their full names, first name first, and multiple authors are separated
by {\tt and}.  For example
\begin{quote}\singlespace\tt\begin{verbatim}
author = "John Jay Park and Frederick Gene Watson and
          Michelle Catherine Smith",
\end{verbatim}\end{quote}
If you were using {\tt abbrv} as your {\tt bibliographystyle}, a reference for these
authors may look like:
\begin{quote}
J.J. Park, F.G. Watson, and M.C. Smith \ldots
\end{quote}

Some styles only capitalize the first word of the title.  If you use any acronyms or
other words that should always be capitalized in titles, then they should be 
enclosed in {\tt \{\}}'s ({\em e.g.}, {\tt \{Fortran\}}, {\tt \{N\}ewton}).
This protects the case of these characters.

There are several other rules for \BibTeX{} listed in~\cite{lamport} which should be
referred to because they are not discussed here.

\section{Putting It All Together}
\label{BBL}
To aid the reader in understanding how all of this works together, the following 
excerpt was taken from Lamport~\cite{lamport}:
\begin{quotation}\singlespace
When you ran \LaTeX{} with the input file {\tt sample.tex}, you may have
noticed that \LaTeX{} created a file named {\tt sample.aux}.  This file,
called an {\em auxiliary} file, contains cross-referencing information.  Since
{\tt sample.tex} contains no cross-referencing commands, the auxiliary file it
produces has no information.  However, suppose that \LaTeX{} is run with an
input file named {\tt myfile.tex} that has citations and bibliography-making
[or referencing] commands.  The auxiliary file {\tt myfile.aux} that it produces
will contain all of the citation keys and the arguments of the {\tt \verb|\bibliography|}
and {\tt\verb|\bibliographystyle|} commands.  When \BibTeX{} is run, it reads
this information from the auxiliary file and produces a file named {\tt myfile.bbl}
containing \LaTeX{} commands to produce the source list \ldots The next time
\LaTeX{} is run on {\tt myfile.tex}, the {\tt \verb|\bibliography|} command reads
the {\tt bbl} file ({\tt myfile.bbl}), which generates the source list.
\end{quotation}

Thus, the command sequence for a source file called {\tt main.tex} which is going to
use \BibTeX{} would be:
\begin{quote}\singlespace\tt\begin{verbatim}
latex main.tex
bibtex main
latex main
latex main
\end{verbatim}\end{quote}
The first \LaTeX{} is to collect all of the citations for \BibTeX{}.  Then
\BibTeX{} is run to generate the bibliography.  \LaTeX{} is run again to
incorporate the bibliography into the document and the run the last time to
update any references (like pages in the Table of Contents) which changed when
the bibliography was included.
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