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<head><title>Help On LaTeX \bibitem</title></head>
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<h1><font size="-2">Hypertext Help with LaTeX</font><br><font color="#cc0000">\bibitem</font></h1>
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 <tt>\bibitem[label]{cite_key}</tt>
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 The <tt>\bibitem</tt>  command  generates  an entry labeled  by <tt>label</tt>.
 If the <tt>label</tt> 
 argument is missing,  a number is generated  as the label, using
 the <tt>enumiv</tt> 
 <a href="ltx-3.html">counter</a>.   
 The <tt>cite_key</tt> is a mnemonic consisting of any  sequence of letters, 
 numbers, and punctuation  symbols not containing  a comma.  
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 <tt>\bibitem</tt> and <a href="ltx-211.html"><tt>\cite</tt></a> are used
 together much as <a href="ltx-252.html"><tt>\label</tt></a> and
 <a href="ltx-303.html"><tt>\ref</tt></a> to produce a correspondence 
 between items in the Reference or Bibliography 
 (<a href="ltx-73.html"><tt>thebibliography</tt></a> environment).
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 This command writes
 an entry  on the aux file containing  <tt>cite_key</tt>  and the item's  
 <tt>label</tt>.
 When this aux file is read by the 
 <a href="ltx-169.html"><tt>\begin{document}</tt></a> command, the item's
 <tt>label</tt> is associated  with <tt>cite_key</tt>, 
 causing the reference  to <tt>cite_key</tt> by a 
 <a href="ltx-211.html"><tt>\cite</tt></a> command to produce the 
 associated <tt>label</tt>.
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See also <A href="ltx-27.html">Environments</A><br>
See also <A href="ltx-73.html"><tt>thebibliography</tt></A>,
         <a href="ltx-211.html"><tt>\cite</tt></a><br>
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<address>
Revised: Sheldon Green, 17 May 1995.
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