### Introduction

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This post contains our solution to the management of references for the following purposes:

• Writing paper.
When you are writing paper with Latex, the best solution for the references is to use Bibtex. A quick introduction and usage of Bibdesk is HERE and a more detailed one can be found HERE.

• Managing paper.
We use some graphical softwares to manage BibTex databases. For Windows and Unix: JabRef and for Mac: BibDesk.
It is easy to classify, search and edit bib files using those softwares. HERE is a sample page which contains html files generated by BibDesk.

• Reading paper.
What we do for this purpose is a small, local, and specialized version of MathSciNet. Most papers in the BibTex database is linked to a pdf file in your local machine or some web sever. A webpage for our current library is HERE (account and password is needed).
• ### Bib Files

• For JabRef, please download umdlib.bib. The configuration of JabRef is HERE.
• For BibDesk, please download library.bib. The preference for BibDesk is HERE.
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### 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.