Using BibTeX

LaTeX2e help 1.6

#### 2.6.20.4: Using BibTeX

If you use the BibTeX program by Oren Patashnik (highly recommended if you need a bibliography of more than a couple of titles) to maintain your bibliography, you don't use the `thebibliography` environment. Instead, you include the lines

              \bibliographystyle{style}
              \bibliography{bibfile}

where `style` refers to a file `style.bst`, which defines how your citations will look. The standard styles distributed with BibTeX are:

`alpha` | Sorted alphabetically. Labels are formed from name of author and year of publication.
`plain` | Sorted alphabetically. Labels are numeric.
`unsrt` | Like `plain`, but entries are in order of citation.
`abbrv` | Like `plain`, but more compact labels.

In addition, numerous other BibTeX style files exist tailored to the demands of various publications.

The argument to `\bibliography` refers to the file `bibfile.bib`, which should contain your database in BibTeX format. Only the entries referred to via `\cite` and `\nocite` will be listed in the bibliography.