@BOOK{For our sample document, we will use the following:,
AUTHOR = "author",
TITLE = "book title",
PUBLISHER = {publishing company},
ADDRESS = {where published},
YEAR = year published}
@BOOK{bar,IMPORTANT: BIBTeX uses REAL quotation marks (") and not the opening and closing quotation marks (`` and '') that LaTeX normally uses!!
AUTHOR = "Star, R. M.",
TITLE = "Foo Bar Baz",
PUBLISHER = {MIT Press},
ADDRESS = {Cambridge, MA},
YEAR = 1989}
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 it in 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 of the document - where you want the References section to appear):
\bibliography{foo}There are several options for \bibliographystyle:
\bibliographystyle{plain}
For more information on this topic, please refer the following pages in the LaTeX manual by Leslie Lamport:
72-74 Bibliography and Citation
74-74 BibTeX
140-147 Format of the .bib File (also gives info on other entry types)
187-188 Bibliography and Citation
\begin{thebibliography}{1} \bibitem{notes} John W. Dower {\em Readings compiled for History 21.479.} 1991. \bibitem{impj} The Japan Reader {\em Imperial Japan 1800-1945} 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 Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern 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 put something like this in your file:
This is obvious \cite{norman}.which would produce something like
This is obvious [2].