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| − | TeX offers excellent ways to handle bibliographic references. | + | TeX offers excellent ways to handle bibliographic references. bibTeX allows you to use a database to manage your references and to insert citations and a list of references into your document. If you're completely new to this subject, you should probably begin to read some basic hints about bibTeX databases. You will find a good selection of resources (most of them are free and available on-line) at the section "Bibliographies and Citations" of the [[http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html UK TeX faq]]. A good place for beginners is Nicolas Markey’s [[http://mirror.ctan.org/info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf Tame the Beast]]. If you have TeXLive installed, it may already be on your hard disk. |
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| + | In traditional ConTeXt mkii, support for bibliographies was added by Taco. A [[Bibliography| wiki page]] explains a few basic facts and points you to the manual of the module. | ||
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| + | ConTeXt mkiv has support for bibliographies integrated into its core (for the curious: the files are named <tt>bibl-tra...</tt>. There is a [[Bibliography_mkiv| wiki page]] for mkiv support. | ||
Latest revision as of 09:19, 28 October 2010
< Main Page | Bibliographies in mkii | Bibliographies in mkiv | sample bib file>
Introduction
TeX offers excellent ways to handle bibliographic references. bibTeX allows you to use a database to manage your references and to insert citations and a list of references into your document. If you're completely new to this subject, you should probably begin to read some basic hints about bibTeX databases. You will find a good selection of resources (most of them are free and available on-line) at the section "Bibliographies and Citations" of the [UK TeX faq]. A good place for beginners is Nicolas Markey’s [Tame the Beast]. If you have TeXLive installed, it may already be on your hard disk.
In traditional ConTeXt mkii, support for bibliographies was added by Taco. A wiki page explains a few basic facts and points you to the manual of the module.
ConTeXt mkiv has support for bibliographies integrated into its core (for the curious: the files are named bibl-tra.... There is a wiki page for mkiv support.
