bibtex — make a bibliography for (La)TeX
bibtex
[option
...] [auxname
]
bibtex reads the top-level auxiliary
(.aux
) file that was output during the running of
latex or tex and creates a
bibliography (.bbl
) file that will be
incorporated into the document on subsequent runs of LaTeX or TeX.
The auxname
on the command-line must be
given without the .aux
extension. If you don't
give the auxname
, the program prompts you
for it.
bibtex looks up, in bibliographic database
(.bib
) files specified by the \bibliography command, the entries specified by
the \cite and \nocite commands in the LaTeX or TeX source
file. It formats the information from those entries according to
instructions in a bibliography style (.bst
) file
(specified by the \bibliographystyle
command, and it outputs the results to the .bbl
file.
The LaTeX reference manual explains what a LaTeX source file
must contain to work with bibtex. Appendix B of the manual
describes the format of the .bib
files. The
BibTeXing document describes extensions and
details of this format, and it gives other useful hints for using
bibtex.
--alias=app
Pretend to be app
, i.e.,
set program (and memory dump) name to app
.
This may affect the search paths and other values used. Using this
option is equivalent to copying the executable file to
and invoking
app
.exe
.app
.exe
--disable-installer
Disable automatic installation of missing packages. Specifying this option overwrites the global configuration setting in MiKTeX Options (see the section called “Automatic Package Installation”).
--disable-pipes
--enable-installer
Enable automatic installation of missing packages. Specifying this option overwrites the global configuration setting in MiKTeX Options (see the section called “Automatic Package Installation”).
--enable-pipes
--help
Give help and exit.
--hhelp
This option is only available on Windows systems: show the manual page in an HTML Help window and exit when the window is closed.
--include-directory=dir
--min-crossrefs=n
Defines the minimum number of crossrefs required for automatic inclusion of the crossref'd entry on the citation list; the default is two.
--quiet
Suppress all output, except errors.
--record-package-usages=file
--trace[=tracestreams
]
Enable trace messages.
The tracestreams
argument, if speciefied, is a
comma-separated list of trace
stream names (Chapter 9, Trace Streams).
--version
Show version information and exit.