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Step 2: Next, invoke Tools > Bibliography > Bibliography Settings and click
on the File button to assign your database to the document as a bibliography
database. Then select those fields of your database that are to serve respectively
as the Reference Field, Author Field and Title Field for the creation of the
bibliography.
Step 3: Now you can invoke Tools > Bibliography > Insert Bibliography
Field to insert references to the sources contained in the bibliography database
into the text (for example, “As mentioned in [DNA1979] ...”).
Step 4: Finally, invoke Tools > Bibliography > Generate Bibliography to
have TextMaker create a bibliography at the end of the document. The bibliography
will contain a list of all the sources to which you inserted references in
the text (see step 3). Each source listing will be based on the corresponding
record in the bibliography database.
You will find detailed information about this on the following pages.
Step 1: The bibliography database
In order to be able to make use of TextMaker’s bibliography functions, you first
need a bibliography database. This is a database in dBase format in which information
about all the sources can be entered.
It is recommended that each document have its own bibliography database. However,
if you are planning to write multiple documents that will refer to exactly the
same sources, then of course you can set up a single database that will be common
to all those documents.
The structure of a bibliography database
A bibliography database must contain at least the following fields:
a field for a unique abbreviation for the source (see below)
a field for the name of the author of the source
a field for the title of the source
The abbreviation must be distinct for every source. By convention, the abbreviation
consists of author’s initials and the year of publication. For example, if the
source were a book the author Harry Smith had published in 1979, HS1979 (or
HS79) would be used as the abbreviation.
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