BIBTEX(1)                   UNIX System V(9/18/90)                    BIBTEX(1)


NAME
      bibtex - make a bibliography for TeX

SYNOPSIS
      bibtex [aux_file_name]

DESCRIPTION
      BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file that was output during a
      running of tex(1) and creates a bibliography (.bbl) file that will be
      incorporated into the document on subsequent runs.  The aux_file_name on
      the command line must be given without the .aux extension.  If you don't
      give the aux_file_name, the program prompts you for it.

      BibTeX looks up, in bibliography database (.bib) files, the entries
      specified by the (for example) \cite and \nocite commands in the source
      file.  It formats the information from those entries according to
      instructions in a style (.bst) file, and it outputs the results to the
      .bbl file.

      The LaTeX manual (a.k.a.  LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, by
      Leslie Lamport, published by Addison-Wesley) 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 `BibTeXing' document by Oren
      Patashnik describes extensions and details of this format, and it gives
      other useful hints for using BibTeX.

      BibTeX can be used with formats other than LaTeX; in particular, the
      eplain macros support BibTeX.

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

FILES
      /usr/TeX/inputs/TeXmacros/*.bst
                               standard style files

      btxdoc.tex               `BibTeXing' - LaTeXable documentation for
                               general BibTeX users

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

      btxdoc.bib               database file for those two documents




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

      btxbst.doc               template file and documentation for the standard
                               styles

      All these files should be available somewhere on your system.

SEE ALSO
      latex(1), tex(1)

AUTHOR
      Oren Patashnik, Stanford University.









































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