NAME

addbib − create or extend bibliographic database

SYNOPSIS

addbib [ −p promptfile ] [ −a ] database

DESCRIPTION

When this program starts up, answering y to the initial Instructions?  prompt yields directions; typing n or RETURN skips them.  addbib then prompts for various bibliographic fields, reads responses from the terminal, and sends output records to a database. A null response (just RETURN) means to leave out that field.  A minus sign (−) means to go back to the previous field.  A trailing backslash allows a field to be continued on the next line.  The repeating Continue?  prompt allows the user either to resume by typing y or RETURN, to quit the current session by typing n or q, or to edit the database with any system editor (vi, ex, edit, ed). 

The −a option suppresses prompting for an abstract; asking for an abstract is the default.  Abstracts are ended with a CTRL-d.  The −p option causes addbib to use a new prompting skeleton, defined in promptfile. This file should contain prompt strings, a tab, and the key-letters to be written to the database. 

The most common key-letters and their meanings are given below.  addbib insulates you from these key-letters, since it gives you prompts in English, but if you edit the bibliography file later on, you will need to know this information. 

%AAuthor’s name
%BBook containing article referenced
%CCity (place of publication)
%DDate of publication
%EEditor of book containing article referenced
%FFootnote number or label (supplied by refer)
%GGovernment order number
%HHeader commentary, printed before reference
%IIssuer (publisher)
%JJournal containing article
%KKeywords to use in locating reference
%LLabel field used by −k option of refer
%MBell Labs Memorandum (undefined)
%NNumber within volume
%OOther commentary, printed at end of reference
%PPage number(s)
%QCorporate or Foreign Author (unreversed)
%RReport, paper, or thesis (unpublished)
%SSeries title
%TTitle of article or book
%VVolume number
%XAbstract — used by roffbib, not by refer
%Y,Zignored by refer

Except for A, each field should be given just once.  Only relevant fields should be supplied.  An example is:

%ABill Tuthill
%TRefer — A Bibliography System
%IComputing Services
%CBerkeley
%D1982
%OUNX 4.3.5.

FILES

promptfileoptional file to define prompting

SEE ALSO

refer(1), sortbib(1), roffbib(1), indxbib(1), lookbib(1)

AUTHORS

Al Stangenberger, Bill Tuthill

NEWS-OSRelease 4.2.1R