Bibtex

Why Bibtex?

Don't worry about formatting the bibliography.

Avoid retyping the same references.

Mangage your references in an efficient way.

Quick Start

1. Put the following two lines right above the \end{document}
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
\bibliography{library}

Commonly used bib style: abbrv, alpha, plain, unsrt You can find the examples and difference of those styles HERE.

"library" is the file name of the bib file. You can use directory path here. For example, \bibliography{../Math/Paper/library}. If it doesn't work, which might be the case for Windows, you just copy the library.bib file to your current directory.

2. To refer a paper in your tex file, use command
\cite{Chen.L;Xu.J2004}
where Chen.L;Xu.J2004 is the bib index. The corresponding bib term in library.bib is:

@article{Chen.L;Xu.J2004,
Author = {Long Chen and Jinchao Xu},
Journal = {Journal of Computational Mathematics},
Pages = {299-308},
Title = {Optimal {Delaunay} triangulations},
Volume = {22(2)},
Year = {2004}}

3. Compiling your tex file.

latex yourfile

bibtex yourfile

latex yourfile

latex yourfile

Somehow you have to latex your tex file twice after the bibtex command.
More instruction can be found at Google.