BibTeX Menu
This menu contains the commands:
BibTeX,Include references, Save bibfiles, Load bibfiles.
- Bibtex: This command allows you to use BibTeX, the LaTeX data basis. It opens a dialog box for adding an entry to your bibliographical data.
The first time you use it you have to click on New
File. Then you must click with the mouse on the Style
field and choose a style.
Depending on the choosen style you must fill all the red fields: author, journal, year, etc...
If you want you can also fill the blue fields, even
if they are not needed by Bibtex.
Then you fill the identificator field: this will be the citation of this bibliographical source.
Now to cite this source, you click on the identify
button. This will put the citation on you document at the caret position.
To finish you must save this entry by clicking
on the Save button.
The save box prompts you for a name and a location for the new created
bib file. This name must have the extension .bib, for instance myRefs.bib.
A usual place to put it is in a directory bibFiles you have to create in your home directory.
If you want to add entries to a bib file you click to the Bibtex command, if the bib file is not the good one, you push the button Open on the first line and choose a bib file; then you click with the mouse on Style field and choose a style and you do exactly as before.
If you want to search in an entry, for example the name Euclide as an author then:
- you type Euclide in the green field Search;
- you push with the mouse the button
Search: the Next and Previous buttons become
green;
- you click with the mouse in the field you want, here the field Author: you have the cursor in this field;
- you type the Enter key.
- To see the next entry containing Euclide in the author name, you push the Next button. The same with the Previous button.
- In the menu TeX/Modify Header, you have several lines related to Bibtex:
Bib Files: it contains the paths for your Bib files; this is written automatically.
Bib Directory: it contains the directory of your files; this is written automatically.
Bib Style: it contains the path for the style of presentation you want. It is set by default to the tetex path on Unix OS and C:\TexLive on Windows OS. You must verify that this path is correct and if not you must type the correct one.
In order to translate everything correctly you must
use the TeX menu of the first banner:
- use the command Translate in TeX in BW or in Colors;
- use the command Compile by TeX;
- use the command Compile by Bibtex;
- and then use again Compile by TeX several times, this is a LaTeX necessity, and finish by:
- the command Preview.
- Include references: This command build a bibliography in your TeX file in order to make it self consistent ; this way you send this file alone to a revue or a colleague. Every bibliographical referneces are in it.
- Save bibfiles: The bibtex files jPretex are in the directory: (home of the user)jaPreTeX/bibFiles. This command ask you the path where to save it and the name of the BibFile you want to save.
This command save the bibtex file you used in the current
document to a medium (diskette, usb memory, etc...)
- Load bibfiles: Load the bibtex files from the medium (diskette, usb memory, etc...) in the same way as in the previous command.