Bibtex Entry Types, Field Types and Usage Hints

Installing Bibtex4Word adds a toolbar (under the “Add-Ins” ribbon in the newer Word version), which allows to insert and modify citations as well as bibliography in your Word document. Beside the macro itself, you need to have a the MikTeX word processing package installed on your PC. Step 1: Selecting bibliography file.

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BibTeX The word BibTeX stands for a tool and a file format which are used to describe and process lists of references, mostly in conjunction with LaTeX documents. Many citation management tools support the ability to export and import lists of references in.bib format. 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 it in. I am on OSX Mavericks. Export (selected) entries in JabRef and choose Office 2007 XML format Open Word, click on the References Tab Click on Manage sources - Browse - Open the exported XML File (or better copy it directly to the location under browse) All entries are then available in the MS bibliography database. In Word, change your bibliography style to “BibTeX export” and copy the bibliography to the clipboard. Use Zotero's Import from Clipboard function. To continue using the same document, you'll want to replace all instances of the original citations so that Zotero can generate a correct bibliography. Plain-text citations and bibliographies.

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1 Entry Types

When entering a reference in the database, the first thing todecide is what type of entry it is. No fixed classification schemecan be complete, but provides enough entry types to handle almost anyreference reasonably well.

References to different types of publications contain differentinformation; a reference to a journal article might include thevolume and number of the journal, which is usually not meaningful fora book. Therefore, database entries of different types have differentfields. For each entry type, the fields are divided into threeclasses:

required

Omitting the field will produce a warning message and, rarely, a badly formatted bibliography entry. If the required information is not meaningful, you are using the wrong entry type. However, if the required information is meaningful but, say, already included is some other field, simply ignore the warning.

optional

The field's information will be used if present, but can be omitted without causing any formatting problems. You should include the optional field if it will help the reader.

ignored

The field is ignored. Ignores any field that is not required or optional, so you can include any fields you want in a bib file entry. It's a good idea to put all relevant information about a reference in its bib file entry--even information that may never appear in the bibliography. For example, if you want to keep an abstract of a paper in a computer file, put it in an abstract field in the paper's bib file entry. The bib file is likely to be as good a place as any for the abstract, and it is possible to design a bibliography style for printing selected abstracts. Note: Misspelling a field name will result in its being ignored, so watch out for typos (especially for optional fields, since won't warn you when those are missing).

The following are the standard entry types, along with their requiredand optional fields, that are used by the standard bibliographystyles. The fields within each class (required or optional) arelisted in order of occurrence in the output, except that a few entrytypes may perturb the order slightly, depending on what fields aremissing. These entry types are similar to those adapted by Brian Reidfrom the classification scheme of van Leunen [4]for use in the Scribe system. The meanings of the individualfields are explained in the next section. Some nonstandardbibliography styles may ignore some optional fields in creating thereference. Remember that, when used in the bib file, theentry-type name is preceded by an @ character.

article

An article from a journal or magazine. Required fields: author, title, journal, year. Optional fields: volume, number, pages, month, note.

book

A book with an explicit publisher. Required fields: author or editor, title, publisher, year. Optional fields: volume or number, series, address, edition, month, note.

booklet

A work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution. Required field: title. Optional fields: author, howpublished, address, month, year, note.

conference

The same as INPROCEEDINGS, included for Scribe compatibility.

inbook

A part of a book, which may be a chapter (or section or whatever) and/or a range of pages. Required fields: author or editor, title, chapter and/or pages, publisher, year. Optional fields: volume or number, series, type, address, edition, month, note.

incollection

A part of a book having its own title. Required fields: author, title, booktitle, publisher, year. Optional fields: editor, volume or number, series, type, chapter, pages, address, edition, month, note.

inproceedings

An article in a conference proceedings. Required fields: author, title, booktitle, year. Optional fields: editor, volume or number, series, pages, address, month, organization, publisher, note.

manual

Technical documentation. Required field: title. Optional fields: author, organization, address, edition, month, year, note.

mastersthesis

A Master's thesis. Required fields: author, title, school, year. Optional fields: type, address, month, note.

misc

Use this type when nothing else fits. Required fields: none. Optional fields: author, title, howpublished, month, year, note.

phdthesis

A PhD thesis. Required fields: author, title, school, year. Optional fields: type, address, month, note.

proceedings

The proceedings of a conference. Required fields: title, year. Optional fields: editor, volume or number, series, address, month, organization, publisher, note.

techreport

A report published by a school or other institution, usually numbered within a series. Required fields: author, title, institution, year. Optional fields: type, number, address, month, note.

unpublished

A document having an author and title, but not formally published. Required fields: author, title, note. Optional fields: month, year.

In addition to the fields listed above, each entry type also has anoptional key field, used in some styles for alphabetizing,for cross referencing, or for forming a bibitem label.You should include a ke

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