BIBTEX(1)

NAME
bibtex - make a (La)TeX bibliography

SYNOPSIS
bibtex auxname

DESCRIPTION
BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file that was output during the running of (la)tex(1) and creates a bibliography (.bbl) file that will be incorporated into the document on subsequent runs of (La)TeX. The auxname on the command line must be given without the .aux extension.

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

The LaTeX manual (aka LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, by Leslie Lamport) explains what a LaTeX source file must contain to work with BibTeX. Appendix B of the LaTeX manual describes the format of the .bib files. The "BibTeXing" document describes extensions and details of that format, and it gives other useful hints for using BibTeX.

ENVIRONMENT
bibtex searches the directories in the path defined by the TEXINPUTS environment variable for .bst files. If TEXINPUTS is not set, it uses the system default: .:/usr/TeX/lib/tex/macros//:/usr/TeX/lib/tex/inputs//. For .bib files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable in a similar way. The default path there is: .:/usr/TeX/lib/tex/bib. 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

btxdoc.tex
    "BibTeXing" - LaTeXable documentation for general BibTeX users

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

btxmac.tex
    macros for using BibTeX with plain TeX

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 the system.

SEE ALSO
latex(1), tex(1).