BIBTEX(1)							    Web2C 2012								 BIBTEX(1)

NAME

       bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX

SYNOPSIS

       bibtex [-min-crossrefs=number] [-terse] auxname[.aux]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.	The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
       Web2C: A TeX implementation.

       BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file auxname that was output during the running of latex(1) or tex(1) and creates a	bibliogra-
       phy (.bbl) file that will be incorporated into the document on subsequent runs of LaTeX or TeX.

       BibTeX  looks  up,  in  bibliographic  database (.bib) files specified by the ibliography command, the entries specified by the cite and
       
ocite commands in the LaTeX or TeX source file.  It formats the information from those entries according to instructions in a	bibliogra-
       phy style (.bst) file (specified by the ibliographystyle command, and it outputs the results to the .bbl file.

       The  LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with BibTeX.  Appendix B of the manual describes the format of the
       .bib files. The `BibTeXing' document describes extensions and details of this format, and it gives other useful hints for using BibTeX.

OPTIONS

       The -min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of crossref required for automatic inclusion of the crossref'd entry on  the  citation
       list; the default is two.  With the -terse option, BibTeX operates silently.  Without it, a banner and progress reports are printed on std-
       out.

ENVIRONMENT

       BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined by the BSTINPUTS environment variable for .bst files. If BSTINPUTS is not set, it  uses
       the  system default.  For .bib files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable if that is set, otherwise the default.	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  direc-
       tory.  Again, see tex(1).  No special searching is done for the .aux file.

FILES

       *.bst  Bibliography 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

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

       btxbst.doc
	      template file and documentation for the standard styles

       All those files should be available somewhere on your system.

       The host math.utah.edu has a vast collection of .bib files available for anonymous ftp, including references for all the standard TeX books
       and a complete bibliography for TUGboat.

SEE ALSO

       latex(1), tex(1).
       Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.

AUTHOR

       Oren Patashnik, Stanford University.  This man page describes the web2c version of BibTeX.  Other ports of BibTeX, such as  Donald  Knuth's
       version using the Sun Pascal compiler, do not have the same path searching implementation, or the command-line options.

bibtex 0.99d							  1 February 2010							 BIBTEX(1)