Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Handling of bib-files with Jabref Citations in Math-Manuscripts Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Jan Heiland Tool Seminar, AG Mehrmann January 12, 2012 J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Handling of bib-files with Jabref Citations in Math-Manuscripts 1 Latex, Bibtex and bib-files 2 Handling of bib-files with Jabref Jabref Basic Functionality Import of Bib-Entries Interplay with the Latex Editor 3 Citations in Math-Manuscripts Where to Take from When to Use J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Handling of bib-files with Jabref Citations in Math-Manuscripts How bibtex is used \documentclass { a r t i c l e } \usepackage{ c i t e } % package f o r the use o f BibTex \begin {document} b l a b l a , c f . \ c i t e {Bec 05} % c i t e a r e f e r e n c e \bibliography { toolSem 1} % use bib− f i l e toolSem 1 . b i b \ bibliographystyle { p l a i n } \end{document} . see our webpage for this example and further reading . J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Handling of bib-files with Jabref Citations in Math-Manuscripts A bibtex file. a bib file is a plain text file that contains arbitrary high numbers of bib-entries @BOOK{ Cia02 , t i t l e = {The finite element method for elliptic problems } , p u b l i s h e r = {SIAM} , y e a r = {2002} , author = { Ciarlet , P. G. } , volume = {40} , s e r i e s = { Classics in Applied Mathematics } , a d d r e s s = { Philadelphia , PA} } and Jabref can help to handle it. J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Jabref Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Basic Functionality Handling of bib-files with Jabref Import of Bib-Entries Citations in Math-Manuscripts Interplay with the Latex Editor Jabref . is GPL software . comes for all platforms http://sourceforge.net/projects/jabref/ J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Jabref Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Basic Functionality Handling of bib-files with Jabref Import of Bib-Entries Citations in Math-Manuscripts Interplay with the Latex Editor Jabref can open several bibs in a GUI sort them by author, title, year, etc. copy and paste between the libs edit the entries assign files like PDFs to the entries → watch the live performance J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Jabref Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Basic Functionality Handling of bib-files with Jabref Import of Bib-Entries Citations in Math-Manuscripts Interplay with the Latex Editor Importing of bibtex entries via copy-n-paste from other bib-files from plain text from the internet [later] → watch the live performance J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Jabref Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Basic Functionality Handling of bib-files with Jabref Import of Bib-Entries Citations in Math-Manuscripts Interplay with the Latex Editor ctrl-K copies “\cite{currentKey}“ to the clipboard → watch the live performance J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Where to Take from Handling of bib-files with Jabref When to Use Citations in Math-Manuscripts Bibtex entries are provided by most of the services that list or host scientific papers. In particular for mathematics it may be worth checking http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/index.html http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/search/ ( features a “TU” button ) http://www.sciencedirect.com/ ... and also most of the preprint servers. J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref Latex, Bibtex and bib-files Where to Take from Handling of bib-files with Jabref When to Use Citations in Math-Manuscripts ??? are there any rules or best practices. For an overview of phrases and formulations see the book by Treziak: Writing Mathematical Papers in English J. Heiland Correct and Efficient Citation Management with Jabref.