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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label BibTeXing</title>
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<h3>BibTeX Documentation</h3>
<p/>BibTeX, a program originally designed to produce bibliographies in
conjunction with LaTeX, is explained in Section 4.3 and Appendix B
of Leslie Lamport&#8217;s LaTeX manual.
The document &#8220;BibTeXing&#8221;, contained in the file <i>btxdoc.tex</i>,
expands on the chapter in Lamport&#8217;s book.  <em>The LaTeX Companion</em>
also has information on BibTeX and writing BibTeX style files.
(See <a href="FAQ-books.html">TeX-related books</a> for details of both
books.)
<p/>The document &#8220;Designing BibTeX Styles&#8221;, contained in the file
<i>btxhak.tex</i>, explains the postfix stack-based language used to
write BibTeX styles (<i>.bst</i> files). The file <i>btxbst.doc</i>
is the template for the four standard styles (<i>plain</i>,
<i>abbrv</i>, <i>alpha</i>, and <i>unsrt</i>). It also
contains their documentation.  The complete BibTeX documentation
set (including all the files above) is available on CTAN.
<p/>A useful tutorial of the whole process of using BibTeX is Nicolas
Markey&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Tame the BeaST (The B to X of BibTeX)</em>&#8221;, which
may also be found on CTAN.  A summary and FAQ
(<i>btxFAQ</i>), by Michael Shell and David Hoadley, is also to be
recommended.
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<dt><tt><i>BibTeX documentation</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc.zip">biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>btxFAQ.pdf</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/btxFAQ.pdf">biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/btxFAQ.pdf</a>
<dt><tt><i>Tame the BeaST</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf">info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf</a>
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=BibTeXing">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=BibTeXing</a>
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