Latex note#2 managing citations…
Tex is really powerful as far as managing a bibliographic citation database – using the bibtex format.
A nice tutorial is hosted here.
The really weird part – multi-pass compiling your document with references.
To fully compile and cross-link references on must repeat some commands, in order to obtain several auxiliary files that will compile the references in the final tex file. I borrowed this neat table from the tutorial in order to help those in a time of need. Take a look…
| step # |
to create filemydocument.dvi: | to create filemydocument.pdf: | result of command: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | latex mydocument | pdflatex mydocument | creates .aux file which includes keywords of any citations |
| 2 | bibtex mydocument | bibtex mydocument | uses the .aux file to extract cited publications from the database in the .bib file, formats them according to the indicated style, and puts the results into in a .bbl file |
| 3 | latex mydocument | pdflatex mydocument | inserts appropriate reference indicators at each point of citation, according to the indicated bibliography style |
| 4 | latex mydocument | pdflatex mydocument | refines citation references and other cross-references, page formatting and page numbers |
Really simple right?