Introduction

Please visit my new home page: http://math.uci.edu/~chenlong/

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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Topics

Long Chen's Publciation

Convergence and Optimality of Adatpvie Finite Element Methods

Bisection

Maxwell equation

Superconvergence

Poisson Boltzmann Equation

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.