LATEX for Philosophers - University of Calgary

Bibliographies: natbib
• The “standard” way to do bibliographic references
• Supports author-year style:
– \citep{Quine1951} produces a parenthetical citation: (Quine 1951)
– \citet{Quine1951} produces an in-text citation: Quine (1951)
• Works with BibTEX to turn bibliography databases into bibliographies for
your document
• Most journals have bibliography styles that work with natbib
Bibliographies: biblatex
• The modern way to do bibliographies in L A TEX
• Supports not only author-year style but also in-text citations and footnoted
references (footnotes contain bibliographic information, no separate
bibliography)
• Supports bibliography databases in the cloud
• Journals unlikely to support biblatex yet
• Most conversion programs don’t work
Presentations: beamer
• Produces presentations as PDFs (use full-screen mode)
• Comes with many predefined themes
• Lets audience track progress through presentation
• Generate handout and presentation from same document
• Supports overlays
5 Conclusion
Conclusion
• It’s good to know what L A TEX is—even if you don’t want to use it—and
now you do
• You might have to or want to use it some or most of the time
– Lots of people use it, even some publishers
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