Apendix¶
BibTeX entry types¶
Here is a list of valid BibTeX entry types with a description when to use them [1].
There is a separate class available for each entry type, which is derived from the Entry class.
The names of the mandatory tags (as listed in the table) are stored in the respective (Entry.mandatoryTags) property,
e.g. for the type article in Article.mandatoryTags.
Note
If you need to use the keyword in the context of this library, always use lowercase diction!
| Keyword | Description (mandatory tags) |
|---|---|
| article | An article from a journal or magazine. (author, title, journal, year) |
| book | A book with an explicit publisher. (author or editor, title, publisher, year) |
| booklet | A work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution. (title) |
| inbook | A part of a book, e.g., a chpater, section, or whatever and/or a range of pages. (author or editor, title, chapter and/or pages, publisher, year) |
| incollection | A part of a book having its own title. (author, title, booktitle, publisher, year) |
| inproceedings | An article in a conference proceedings. (author, title, booktitle, year) |
| manual | Technical documentation. (title) |
| mastersthesis | A master’s thesis. (author, title, school, year) |
| misc | Use this type when nothing else fits. (None) |
| phdthesis | A Ph.D. thesis. (author, title, school, year.) |
| proceedings | Conference proceedings. (title, year) |
| techreport | A report published by a school or other institution, usually numbered within a series. (author, title, institution, year) |
| unpublished | A document having an author and title, but not formally published. (author, title, note) |
BibTeX entry tags¶
Here is a list of processed BibTeX entry tags (aka fields) with a description what they should content [1].
Note
If you need to use the keyword in the context of this library, always use lowercase diction!
| Keyword | Description |
|---|---|
| abstract | The abstract, which can contain multiple lines. |
| address | Usually the address of the publisher or other institution. |
| annote | An annotation. |
| author | The name(s) of the author(s), in BibTeX name format. |
| booktitle | Title of a book, part of which is being cited. |
| chapter | A chapter (or section or whatever) number. |
| comment | A comment. |
| crossref | The database key of the entry being cross-referenced. |
| doi | The digital object identifier (DOI) of the publication. |
| edition | The edition of a book (e.g., “Second”). |
| editor | Name(s) of editor(s), in BibTeX name format. |
| howpublished | How something strange has been published. |
| institution | Institutuion sponsoring a technical report. |
| isbn | International Standard Book Number |
| journal | Journal name. Abbrevations are provided for many journals. |
| key | Used for alphabetizing, cross-referencing, and creating a label when the author is missing. |
| keywords | Keywords |
| month | The month in which the work was published or, for an unpublished work, in which it was written. |
| note | Any additional information that can help the reader. |
| number | The number (issue) of a journal, magazine, technical report, or work in a series. |
| organization | The organization that sponsors a conference or that publishes a manual. |
| pages | One or more page numbers or range of numbers. |
| publisher | The publisher’s name. |
| school | The name of the school where the thesis was written. |
| series | The name of a series or set of books. |
| title | The work’s title. |
| type | The type of a technical report(e.g., “Research Note”). |
| url | URL of the publication document. |
| volume | The volume of a journal or multivolume book. |
| year | The year of publication or, for an unpublished work, the year it was written. |
BibTeX name format¶
To ensure that BibTeX it self, as well as this library (e.g. Entry.authors) handle the contents of
the author tag properly, this has to be in a proper format.
A valid BibTeX name format is: “John Doe and …” or “Doe, John and …”.
Note
Unfortunately even official sources, like e.g. publishers’s web sites, often provide BibTeX citations to download, which didn’t fulfill this format, so be careful.
Footnotes & References¶
| [1] | (1, 2) taken from http://bib-it.sourceforge.net/help/fieldsAndEntryTypes.php |