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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label buildbib</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Creating a BibTeX bibliography file</h3>
-<p/>A BibTeX bibliography file may reasonably be compared to a small
-database, the entries in which are references to literature that may
-be called up by citations in a document.
-<p/>Each entry in the bibliography has a <em>type</em> and a unique
-<em>key</em>. The bibliography is read, by BibTeX, using the details
-specified in a <em>bibliography style</em>. From the style, BibTeX
-finds what entry types are permissible, what <em>fields</em> each entry
-type has, and how to format the whole entry.
-<p/>The type specifies the type of document you&#8217;re making reference to; it
-may run all the way from things like &#8220;<code>Book</code>&#8221; and
-&#8220;<code>Proceedings</code>&#8221; (which may even contain other citations
-of type &#8220;<code>InBook</code>&#8221; or &#8220;<code>InProceedings</code>&#8221;)
-through dissertation styles like &#8220;<code>PhdThesis</code>&#8221; to
-otherwise-uncategorisable things such as &#8220;<code>Misc</code>&#8221;. The
-unique key is something you choose yourself: it&#8217;s what you use when
-you want to <a href="FAQ-usebibtex.html">cite an entry in the file</a>. People
-commonly create a key that combines the (primary) author&#8217;s name and
-the year of publication, possibly with a marker to distinguish
-publications in the same year. So, for example, the Dyson, Eddington,
-Davidson paper about deflection of starlight appears in my
-experimental <code>.bib</code> file as <code>Dyson20.1</code>.
-<p/>So, noting the rules of the style, you have &#8216;simply&#8217; to write a
-bibliography database. Fortunately, there are several tools to help
-in this endeavour:
-<ul>
-<li> Most of the better <a href="FAQ-editors.html">(La)TeX-oriented editors</a>
- have &#8220;BibTeX modes&#8221;.
-<li> If you have an existing <code>thebibliography</code>
- environment, the <i>Perl</i> script <i>tex2bib</i> will
- probably help.
-<li> There are a number of BibTeX bibliography management systems
- available, some of which permit a graphical user interface to the
- task. Sadly, none seems to be available with the ordinary TeX
- distributions.
-<p/> Tools such as <i>Xbibfile</i> (a graphical user interface),
- <i>ebib</i> (a database application written to run &#8216;inside&#8217;
- <i>emacs</i>) and
- <i>btOOL</i> (a set of <i>perl</i> tools for building
- BibTeX database handlers) are available from CTAN.
-<p/> Other systems, such as
- <a href="http://refdb.sourceforge.net/"><i>RefDB</a></i>,
- <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/biborb">BibORB</a>,
- <a href="http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/"><i>BibDesk</a></i>,
- <a href="http://pybliographer.org"><i>pybliographer</a></i> and the
- <i>Java</i>-based
- <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/bibkeeper/"><i>Bibkeeper</a></i>
- and <a href="http://jabref.sourceforge.net"><i>JabRef</a></i> (which
- claims to supersede <i>Bibkeeper</i>)
- are only available from their development sites.
-
-<li> Some commercial citation-management systems will export in
- BibTeX format; an example is
- <a href="http://www.endnote.com/">EndNote</a>.
-<li> Data from on-line citation databases may often be translated to
- BibTeX format by utilities to be found on CTAN. For
- example, the <i>Perl</i> script <i>isi2bibtex</i> will
- translate citations from ISI &#8220;Web of knowledge&#8221; (a
- subscription service, available to UK academics via
- BIDS). UK academics may translate BIDS downloads
- using <i>bids.to.bibtex</i>
-<li> <a href="http://scholar.google.com">Google Scholar</a> provides an
- &#8220;Import into BibTeX&#8221; tab for each reference it finds for you:
- that tab gives you a page containing a BibTeX entry for the
- reference.
-</ul>
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>bids.to.bibtex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/bids/bids.to.bibtex">biblio/bibtex/utils/bids/bids.to.bibtex</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/bidstobibtex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>btOOL</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/btOOL.zip">biblio/bibtex/utils/btOOL</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/btOOL/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>ebib</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/ebib.zip">biblio/bibtex/utils/ebib</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/ebib/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>isi2bibtex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/isi2bibtex.zip">biblio/bibtex/utils/isi2bibtex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/isi2bibtex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/isi2bibtex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>tex2bib</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/tex2bib">biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/tex2bib</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/tex2bib.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>tex2bib.readme</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/README">biblio/bibtex/utils/tex2bib/README</a>
-<dt><tt><i>xbibfile</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/xbibfile.zip">biblio/bibtex/utils/xbibfile</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/xbibfile/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/xbibfile.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=buildbib">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=buildbib</a>
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