### BibTeX Documentation

BibTeX, a program originally designed to produce bibliographies in conjunction with LaTeX, is explained in Section 4.3 and Appendix B of Leslie Lamport’s LaTeX manual (see TeX-related books). The document “BibTeXing”, contained in the file btxdoc.tex, expands on the chapter in Lamport’s book. The LaTeX Companion (see TeX-related books) also has information on BibTeX and writing BibTeX style files.

The document “Designing BibTeX Styles”, contained in the file `btxhak.tex`, explains the postfix stack-based language used to write BibTeX styles (`.bst` files). The file `btxbst.doc` is the template for the four standard styles (`plain`, `abbrv`, `alpha`, `unsrt`). It also contains their documentation. The complete BibTeX documentation set (including the files above) is available on CTAN.

A useful tutorial of the whole process of using BibTeX is Nicolas Markey’s “Tame the BeaST (The B to X of BibTeX)”, which may also be found on CTAN.

`BibTeX documentation`
  biblio/bibtex/distribs/doc (gzipped tar, browse)
`BibTeX documentation, in PDF`
  biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc (gzipped tar, browse)
`Tame the BeaST`
  info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ttb_en.pdf

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