References: use Bibtex

Bibtex allows you to create reference sections and cite sources very easily, once you get up to speed with how to use it. One very nice feature is that you can create files that list your citations/sources and reuse the information in multiple documents. Note that the Current Index to Statisticshas an option for outputting Bibtex-formatted references rather than html format. You might organize these source files by topic (see below).

• There are lots of different styles for reference sections/bibliographies.
  one statistical standard is the asa style, for which you need the asa bst and sty files. Place them in a directory and then add the following in the preamble of your Latex file:
  \usepackage{$HOME/latex/asa} (or whatever path goes to where you put the style files)
• How to cite within the document:
  • \cite{Fuen:Smit:2000} % Fuentes and Smith (2000)
  • (\citenp{Fuen:Smit:2000}) % (Fuentes and Smith 2000)
  • \cite[p. 817]{Fuen:Smit:2000} % Fuentes and Smith (2000, p. 817)
• To change how punctuation appears in citation in the main body - e.g., 'Paciorek et al. 2001' vs. 'Paciorek et al., 2001',
  you can monkey with the following command placed in your preamble; I'm not sure, however, if this is only for the American Meteorological Style that I used when I dealt with this issue.
  • \bibpunct[,]{(}{)}{;}{a}{,}{,}
  • see natbib.sty for info
• To create the reference/literature cited section, place the following text at the point in the document where you want the section to appear.
  \bibliographystyle{$HOME/latex/asa} 
  \bibliography{$HOME/bibfiles/cyclones,$HOME/bibfiles/thesis,$HOME/bibfiles/statgeneral}
  The three files in the second line are the source files for your citations that when combined should contain all the sources referred to using \cite (or \citenp) in the document; the source files should have the .bib extension, i.e., cyclones.bib,thesis.bib,statgeneral.bib
• Here are some example source files with the syntax for various types of references (journal article, book, technical report, dissertation, etc.)
  • scientific source file
  • statistics source file