BibTeX Documentation
BibTeX, a program originally designed to produce bibliographies in
conjunction with LaTeX, is explained in Section 4.3 and Appendix B
of Leslie Lamport’s LaTeX manual.
The document “BibTeXing”, contained in the file btxdoc.tex,
expands on the chapter in Lamport’s book. The LaTeX Companion
also has information on BibTeX and writing BibTeX style files.
(See TeX-related books for details of both
books.)
The document “Designing BibTeX Styles”, contained in the file
btxhak.tex, explains the postfix stack-based language used to
write BibTeX styles (.bst files). The file btxbst.doc
is the template for the four standard styles (plain,
abbrv, alpha, and unsrt). It also
contains their documentation. The complete BibTeX documentation
set (including all the files above) is available on CTAN.
A useful tutorial of the whole process of using BibTeX is Nicolas
Markey’s “Tame the BeaST (The B to X of BibTeX)”, which
may also be found on CTAN. A summary and FAQ
(btxFAQ), by Michael Shell and David Hoadley, is also to be
recommended.
- BibTeX documentation
- biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc (or browse the directory)
- btxFAQ.pdf
- biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/btxFAQ.pdf
- Tame the BeaST
- info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf
This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=BibTeXing