NAME

       bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX

SYNOPSIS

       bibtex [-min-crossrefs=number] [-terse] auxname[.aux]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation for this version of TeX can
       be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

       BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file auxname that was output during the running  of  latex(1)
       or  tex(1)  and  creates  a  bibliography  (.bbl)  file  that  will  be incorporated into the document on
       subsequent runs of LaTeX or TeX.

       BibTeX looks up, in bibliographic database (.bib) files  specified  by  the  \bibliography  command,  the
       entries  specified  by  the  \cite  and \nocite commands in the LaTeX or TeX source file.  It formats the
       information from those entries according to instructions in a bibliography style (.bst)  file  (specified
       by the \bibliographystyle command), and it outputs the results to the .bbl file.

       The  LaTeX  manual explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with BibTeX.  Appendix B of the
       manual describes the format of the .bib files.  The `BibTeXing' document describes extensions and details
       of this format, and it gives other useful hints for using BibTeX.

OPTIONS

       The -min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of crossref required for automatic inclusion of  the
       crossref  base  entry  in  the  citation  list;  the default is two.  To avoid these automatic inclusions
       altogether, give this option a sufficiently large number, and be sure to remove  any  previous  .aux  and
       .bbl files.  Otherwise the option may appear to have no effect, since BibTeX will have added the citation
       for the base entry to the .aux file, and nothing will remove it.

       With  the -terse option, BibTeX operates silently.  Without it, a banner and progress reports are printed
       on stdout.

ENVIRONMENT

       BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined by the BSTINPUTS environment variable for .bst files.
       If BSTINPUTS is not set, it uses the system default.  For .bib files, it uses the  BIBINPUTS  environment
       variable if that is set, otherwise the default.  See tex(1) for the details of the searching.

       If  the  environment  variable TEXMFOUTPUT is set, BibTeX attempts to put its output files in it, if they
       cannot be put in the current directory.  Again, see tex(1).  No special searching is done  for  the  .aux
       file.

FILES

       *.bst  Bibliography style files.

       btxdoc.tex
              ``BibTeXing'' - LaTeXable documentation for general BibTeX users

       btxhak.tex
              ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable documentation for style designers

       btxdoc.bib
              database file for those two documents

       xampl.bib
              database file giving examples of all standard entry types

       btxbst.doc
              template file and documentation for the standard styles

       All those files should be available somewhere on your system.

       The  host  math.utah.edu  has  a  vast  collection  of  .bib files available for anonymous ftp, including
       references for all the standard TeX books and a complete bibliography for TUGboat.

SEE ALSO

       latex(1), tex(1).
       Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.

AUTHOR

       Oren Patashnik, Stanford University.  This man page describes the web2c version of BibTeX.   Other  ports
       of  BibTeX,  such  as  Donald  Knuth's  version  using the Sun Pascal compiler, do not have the same path
       searching implementation, or the command-line options.

bibtex 0.99d                                     24 August 2023                                        BIBTEX(1)