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Questions tagged [bibtex]

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How do I cite software in LaTeX?

I'm currently writing a 15 ECTS (quarter years worth) report as a part of my two-year masters in computer science, and I'm using LaTeX with BibTeX. In my report I use and "talk about" different pieces of software. As we know software can change when…
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How do i get bibtex entries from Amazon.com

Has anyone written an interface through which i can get a citation of a book/paper from amazon.com Thanks for the suggestions from fellow users. I'm updating the questions to detail in more specifics: Citeulike.org issue: I used BibTeX "Export from…
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How to cite a video game in Bibtex

I am writing an essay on video games and naturally I am referencing a number of them as examples. Since we are in Computer Science, we use the IEEE reference style and there is a section that specifically shows how should a computer game be…
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Unicode characters in bibtex

I am struggling with unicode chars in bibtex (Debian). I have the following entry in my .bib file: @Book{bjork2009, author = {Tomas Björk}, title = {Arbitrage Theory in Continuous Time}, publishe = {Oxford University Press}, year = {2009} } and it…
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How to use a bibtex (xml) library in word

I need to use ms word, but I want to use my bibtex library for citations. Therefore, I installed jabref and exported my library to an xml file. However, I do not know how to import my xml file into the citation manager. In which folder should I put…
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Is there any natural way to cite a newspaper article in BibTex/LaTeX?

I'd like to be able to cite a newspaper article in LaTeX, but Bibtex seems to have no date field (it has year and month, but that doesn't seem sufficient). Is there any good way around this?
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How can I convert a BibTex library to the bibliography format used by Microsoft Word?

Are there ways to import BibTex files for use with the reference manager in Word?
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Collaborative use of bibtex as an online database (JabRef)?

I am thinking about a collaborative effort, where several people would need to insert data; for different reasons, it would be most convenient that this data is in bibtex format (the references format for latex). Now, I know JabRef reference…
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Mendeley - Exporting A Collection Straight to PDF or HTML

I'm in love with Mendeley Desktop for organizing my papers. I'm working on a survey paper and I want to send an updated list of the papers in the survey to my advisors. The best solution would be to get them to sign up for Mendeley, but they're not…
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BibTeX will not compile

I am trying to compile a bibliography that is externally linked but I get back an error saying I couldn't open file name firstbibtex.aux Here is the referencing code: @article{greenwade93, author = "George D. Greenwade", title = "The…
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MacVim won't run bibtex (or compile as necessary to clear warnings) with \ll shortcut

But I can run bibtex manually with :! bibtex texfile and then compile with the \ll shortcut twice to get labels and citations correct in the body of the paper. I'm on a MacBook Pro running 10.6.6 and MacVim 7.3(53) and an up-to-date…
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can't start biber(bibLaTex Compiler), although it is successful installed (fedora21)

solved Hey, i installed texlive-biblatex* , but strangly i cant start it, using "biber". $ biber bash: biber: Befehl nicht gefunden... Also i cant access the manpage for bibLaTeX: $ man biblatex Kein Handbucheintrag für biblatex vorhanden but…
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Which free, graphical browser for bibtex can you recommend for Windows 7?

Which free, graphical browser for bibtex can you recommend for Windows 7 (Cygwin is fine, too)? I have a fairly big bibtex file, which is my entire Cite U like library, and I want to browse it but not by using CUL.
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How to keep Zotero collections in sync with collaborators via git?

I am using Zotero/Latex for academic writing and citations, yet I am wondering about the cleanest way to collaborate on a scientific manuscript via Zotero and git/github. I am happily using the BetterBibtex plugin for Zotero. I activated the "Keep…
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In vim, is it possible to turn my bibliographic keys into links?

I write in pandoc markdown, which uses bibligraphic keys from biblatex that look like @smith_foo_1999, where "Smith" is the author name, "Foo" is the title, and 1999 is the year of publication. This corresponds to an entry in my library.bib file…
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