thebibliography

LaTeX2e help 1.6

### 2.6.20: thebibliography

       \begin{thebibliography}{widest-label}
       \bibitem[label]{cite_key}
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       \end{thebibliography}

The `thebibliography` environment produces a bibliography or reference list. In the `article` class, this reference list is labelled ``References''; in the `report` class, it is labelled ``Bibliography''.

- `widest-label`: Text that, when printed, is approximately as wide as the widest item label produces by the `\bibitem` commands.

- \bibitem Specify a bibliography item.
- \cite Refer to a bibliography item.
- \nocite Include an item in the bibliography.
- Using BibTeX Automatic generation of bibliographies.