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- Notes on how to share bibtex files.
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- Construction of citation keys:
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- @article
- Author:<abbrev-journal>-<volume or yyear>-<start page or month#>
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- @inproceedings
- Author:<abbrev-booktitle><yyear>-<start page> [no -, e.g, RIDT91]
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- @incollection
- Author:<abbrev-booktitle>-<yyear>-<start page>
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- @proceedings
- @book
- @...thesis
- Author:<abbrev-title>-<yyear>
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- @unpublished
- Author:<abbrev-title>-<yyear>-<month# or whatever>
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- @techreport
- Author:<abbrev-title>-<yyear> or
- Author:<abbrev-inst>-<yyear>-<number>
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- To make abbrev, use initial letters from the first three or so important
- words in the title. If title has one word, probably better to
- abbreviate it than to use just a single letter, as in `SCI' rather than
- `S' for the journal `Science'. For books it probably doesn't matter much.
-
- Use \#, \&, \$
- Use \allcaps
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- journal string prefix `j-'
- publisher `pub-'
- publisher address `pub-<publisher>:adr'
- institution `inst-'
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- This book has a good collections of journal abbreviations:
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- Coden for Periodical Titles, Volume 1, ASTM Data Series DS 23A,
- American Society for Testing and Materials, 1916 Race St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
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- CONVENTIONS (for naming BibTeX citation keys)
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- Books are tagged by the first author's last name, a colon, up to 3
- upper-case letters taken from the first three upper-case words in the
- title (ignoring words like A, And, The), followed by the last two digits
- of the publication year. If there is a volume entry, it is appended to
- the tag, prefixed by a hyphen.
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- When appropriate, a van part is included in the author tag. For names
- with accented letters, accents are dropped in the author tag.
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- This scheme is systematic enough that it can be programmed: most of the
- Addison-Wesley book entries were created with an awk program from a dump
- of the AW database supplied by Mona Zeftel. Older entries in this
- bibliography were modified on 28-Nov-1990 to conform to this tagging
- scheme.
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- The choice of a limit of 3 letters was determined from experiments on
- the Addison-Wesley collection. Long tags are undesirable because they
- are a nuisance to type, and also interfere with the tagged bibliography
- output produced using the LaTeX showtags style option.
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- Journal article tags look like author:abbrev-volume-number-page, where
- the author part is the last name of the first author: for example,
- Gilchrist:NAMS-36-9-1199.
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- Technical report tags look like author:abbrev-number: for example,
- Billawala:STAN-CS-89-1256.
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- InProceedings tags look like author:conferencename-page: for example,
- Agostini:TEX85-117.
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- With few exceptions, value fields for acknowledgement, address, journal,
- and publisher keywords should use macros. This helps to ensure
- consistency, and reduces the entry sizes. Address entries must always
- include the country.
-