BIBTEX(1)                                               BIBTEX(1)


NAME
       bibtex - make a (La)TeX bibliography

SYNOPSIS
       bibtex auxname

DESCRIPTION
       BibTeX  reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file that was
       output during the running of (la)tex(1) and creates a bib-
       liography  (.bbl)  file that will be incorporated into the
       document on subsequent runs of (La)TeX.   The  auxname  on
       the command line must be given without the .aux extension.

       BibTeX looks up,  in  the  bibliographic  database  (.bib)
       files, the entries specified by the \cite and \nocite com-
       mands in the (La)TeX source file.  It formats the informa-
       tion  from  those entries according to instructions in the
       style (.bst) file, and it outputs the results to the  .bbl
       file.

       The  LaTeX manual (aka LaTeX - A Document Preparation Sys-
       tem, by Leslie Lamport) explains what a LaTeX source  file
       must contain to work with BibTeX.  Appendix B of the LaTeX
       manual describes the format of the .bib files.  The  "Bib-
       TeXing"  document describes extensions and details of that
       format, and it gives other useful hints for using  BibTeX.

ENVIRONMENT
       bibtex searches the directories in the path defined by the
       TEXINPUTS environment variable for .bst files.  If  TEXIN-
       PUTS   is   not   set,   it   uses   the  system  default:
       .:/usr/contrib/lib/tex/inputs//    /*TeXsource*/.      For
       .bib  files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable in
       a   similar   way.    The   default   path    there    is:
       .:/usr/contrib/lib/tex/bib         /*bibfile*/.        See
       tex(1) for the details of the searching.  If the  environ-
       ment  variable  TEXMFOUTPUT is set, BibTeX attempts to put
       its output files in it, if they cannot be put in the  cur-
       rent  directory.  Again, see tex(1).  No special searching
       is done for the .aux file.

FILES
       btxdoc.tex          "BibTeXing" - LaTeXable  documentation
                           for general BibTeX users

       btxhak.tex          "Designing  BibTeX Styles" - LaTeXable
                           documentation for style designers

       btxmac.tex          macros for using BibTeX with plain TeX

       btxdoc.bib          database file for those two documents

       xampl.bib           database  file  giving examples of all
                           standard entry types



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BIBTEX(1)                                               BIBTEX(1)


       btxbst.doc          template file  and  documentation  for
                           the standard styles

       All  those files should be available somewhere on the sys-
       tem.

SEE ALSO
       latex(1), tex(1).

















































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