The memoir class - The UK TeX Archive

SeventeenBack matterThe back matter consists of reference and supportive elements for the main matter; thingslike bibliographies, indexes, glossaries, endnotes, and other material. The class providesadditional elements and features of such matter that are not in the standard classes.17.1 BIBLIOGRAPHYJust as a reminder the bibliography is typeset within the thebibliography environment.\bibname\begin{thebibliography}{〈exlabel〉}\bibitem ...\end{thebibliography}The environment takes one required argument, 〈exlabel〉, which is a piece of text as wideas the widest label in the bibliography. The value of \bibname (default ‘Bibliography’) isused as the title.\bibintoc \nobibintocThe declaration \bibintoc will cause the thebibliography environment to add the titleto the ToC, while the declaration \nobibintoc ensures that the title is not added to theToC. The default is \bibintoc.\cite[〈detail〉]{〈labstr-list〉}Within the text you call out a bibliographic reference using the \cite command, where〈labstr-list〉 is a comma-separated list of identifiers for the cited works; there must be nospaces in this list. The optional 〈detail〉 argument is for any additional information regardingthe citation such as a chapter or page number; this is printed after the main reference.Various aspects of a bibliography can be changed and at this point it may be helpful tolook at some of the internals of the thebibliography environment, which is defined likethis\newenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{%\bibsection\begin{bibitemlist}{#1}}%{\end{bibitemlist}\postbibhook}The bibliographic entries are typeset as a list, the bibitemlist.\bibsection299Chapter last updated 2013/05/02 (revision 454)