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     1.4 +To comment out part of an entry in BibTeX, you can use:
     1.5 +
     1.6 +	@Comment{body of text}
     1.7 +
     1.8 +If you wish to comment out the entire entry, just remove the @ sign in
     1.9 +front of the entry type (i.e., get rid of the '@' in "@Book").
    1.10 +
    1.11 +*************************************************************************
    1.12 +
    1.13 +You can specify fixed strings (say if you needed to use it multiple
    1.14 +times in your BibTeX file) with the @String command:
    1.15 +
    1.16 +	@String(Leslie-Lamport = {Leslie Lamport})
    1.17 +
    1.18 +and then you could use it in various entries:
    1.19 +
    1.20 +	@Book{latex,
    1.21 +		Author = Leslie-Lamport,
    1.22 +		Title = "\LaTeX",
    1.23 +		...
    1.24 +		Year = "1993"}
    1.25 +
    1.26 +*************************************************************************
    1.27 +
    1.28 +The required fields are not prefaced with OPT.  Those that are optional
    1.29 +*are* prefaced with OPT (remember to delete those three characters should
    1.30 +you wish to use those fields).
    1.31 +
    1.32 +[Note:
    1.33 +     For most entry types the "author" information is simply the AUTHOR
    1.34 +field.  However:  For the @Book and @Inbook entry types it's the AUTHOR
    1.35 +field, but if there's no author then it's the EDITOR field; for the
    1.36 +@Manual entry type it's the AUTHOR field, but if there's no author then
    1.37 +it's the ORGANIZATION field; and for the @Proceedings entry type it's
    1.38 +the EDITOR filed, but if there's no editor then it's the ORGANIZATION
    1.39 +field.]
    1.40 +
    1.41 +To use this, just have your main.tex specify the following:
    1.42 +
    1.43 +	\bibliography{main}
    1.44 +	\bibliographystyle{plain}
    1.45 +
    1.46 +There are several options for bibliographystyle:
    1.47 +
    1.48 +        plain   normal style - listed in ABC order and labeled numerically
    1.49 +        unsrt   same as plain except entries appear in order of citation
    1.50 +        alpha   same as plain except entry labels are used
    1.51 +        abbrv   same as plain except uses abbreviations for first names,
    1.52 +                month names, and journal names
    1.53 +
    1.54 +Now that you have the basis for a bibliography, you have to run both
    1.55 +latex and bibtex on the document.  First, you should run latex (to
    1.56 +create a foo.aux file, which bibtex reads).  Then run bibtex once to get
    1.57 +some of the citations and create a .bbl file.  Then run latex again so
    1.58 +that the cross references between the text file and the bibliography are
    1.59 +correct.  You may want to repeat running bibtex and latex on the file to
    1.60 +make sure that all cross references are correct.  Be warned that
    1.61 +adding/deleting citations and sources will require running bibtex again.
    1.62 +
    1.63 +For more information on this topic, please refer the following pages in
    1.64 +the LaTeX manual by Leslie Lamport:
    1.65 +
    1.66 +        72-74    Bibliography and Citation
    1.67 +        74-74    BibTeX
    1.68 +        140-147  Format of the .bib File (also gives info on other entry types)        187-188  Bibliography and Citation
    1.69 +
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