latex-wochenende/slides/literature.en.md

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@title Reference management

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@title What do we need?

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• a bibliography file (hereafter .bib file) for storing references
• BibLaTeX as an interface between the references and LaTeX

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@title What is this mysterious .bib file?

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• collection of references in BibLaTeX format
• example:

@article{turing1990, % the type of the document and an identifier for the \cite command
    title={The chemical basis of morphogenesis}, % information
    author={Turing, Alan Mathison},              % about
    journal={Bulletin of mathematical biology},  % the
    volume={52},                                 % literature
    pages={153--197},                            % work
    date={1990},                                 % follows
    publisher={Springer}                         % …
}

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@title BibLaTeX

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• Package for creating and designing bibliographies
• Use of biber as backend

**Some well-meaning advice**

You want the references to look professional?

Trust BibLaTeX’s default citation styles!

This conversely means: Avoid fiddling around with styles manually.

Two things are infinite: the universe and the assortment of citation styles.Unknown

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@title What you need

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• Include the BibLaTeX package in the preamble:

\usepackage[style=<citation-style>, 
backend=biber]{biblatex}

• Include the .bib-file in the preamble:

\addbibresource{<bib-file>}

• Generate the bibliography:

\printbibliography

• BibLaTeX documentation: Link
• BibLaTeX cheat sheet: Link

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@title Editing the citation style

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• Built-in styles for direct use (z.B. authoryear, numeric, alphabetic)
• additionally options for configurations and other styles (z.B. apa, ieee, chicago-authordate)

\usepackage[style=numeric, citestyle=ieee, 
backend=biber]{biblatex}

• Change the sorting:

\usepackage[style=numeric, citestyle=ieee, 
sorting=nty, backend=biber]{biblatex}

Code	Description
nty	Name, Title, Year
nyt	Name, Year, Title
nyvt	Name, Year, Volume, Title
ydtn	Year (descending), Title, Name

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@title How is it used?

@content BibLaTeX adds some citation commands to LaTeX. In addition, we need the natbib package.

• ++ Citing an author in parentheses: \parencite{<source>}
• ++ Citing an author in text: \textcite{<source>}
• ++ Citing a page: \cite[p. 15]{<source>}
• ++ Citing with additional text:
  \cite[<prefix>][<suffix>]{<source>}

Code	Description
`\parencite{turing1990}`	[Turing, 1990]
`\textcite{turing1990}`	Turing (1990)
`\textcite[p. 159]` `{turing1990}`	Turing (1990, p. 159)

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@title An example

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\usepackage[style=authoryear, 
maxnames=3, 
minnames=1, 
nohashothers=true, 
dashed=false, 
url=false, 
backend=biber]{biblatex}

An exemplary reference in the citation style above:

\textcite{thatcher2002} or in parentheses
\parencite{thatcher2002}.

\printbibliography

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Creating and inserting references

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• Create a new BibTeX file called literature.bib in the exercises/literature folder.
• Use Google Scholar or dblp.org to retrieve BibTeX references for the following \LaTeX handbooks:
  • Dilip Datta (2017): \LaTeX in 24 Hours. A Practical Guide for Scientific Writing.
  • Frank Mittelbach / Michel Goossens (2010): Der $\LaTeX$-Begleiter.
• Add the BibTeX entries to the BibTeX file.
• Assign unique and meaningful BibTeX keys.
• Add the bibliography file to the project's preamble.
• Make use of the alpha bibliography style.
• Cite the two handbooks in the file exercises/literature/literature.tex.
• Ensure that the bibliography is listed.

:::{.box .warning} Not: If the compilation fails, it may be helpful to remove all temporary files (….aux/bbl/blg/loc/out/pdf/soc/toc) and to compile again. :::

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@title The University Library recommends …

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• reference management software (esp. Zotero) help to build a literature database, store quotations, and organize one's own notes
• ++ support available from the library's own reference management team: literaturverwaltung.ub@uni-bamberg.de
• ++ in Zotero: activate the plugin "Better BibTeX" (applies also if you are using biblatex)

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@title Setup for Zotero with Better BibTeX

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• install "Better BibTeX"
• open Zotero > Tools > Plugins > enable Better BibTeX for Zotero
• TeXstudio: Bibliography > set type to BibLaTeX
• TeXstudio: Options > configure TeXstudio > Generate > set standard for bibliography to Biber
• Zotero: export your library from Zotero, set Better BibLaTex as format, and set keep updated to true
• Zotero & TeXstudio: save the library in your LaTeX project archive and use it as the .bib-file

**💡 Further information**

There are plenty of resources about the setup available online.