The memoir class - The UK TeX Archive

17. BACK MATTERMany different BibTeX styles are available and the particular one to be used is specified bycalling \bibliographystyle before the bibliography itself. The ‘standard’ bibliography〈style〉s follow the general schemes for mathematically oriented papers and are:plain The entry format is similar to one suggested by Mary-Claire van Leunen [Leu92],and entries are sorted alphabetically and labelled with numbers.unsrt The format is the same as plain but that entries are ordered by the citation order inthe text.alpha The same as plain but entries are labelled like ‘Wil89’, formed from the author andpublication date.abbrv The same as plain except that some elements, like month names, are abbreviated.There are many other styles available, some of which are used in collaboration with apackage, one popular one being Patrick Daly’s natbib [Dal99a] package for the kinds ofauthor-year citation styles used in the natural sciences. Another package is jurabib [Ber02]for citation styles used in legal documents where the references are often given in footnotesrather than listed at the end of the document.I assume you know how to generate a bibliography using BibTeX, so this is just a quickreminder. You first run LaTeX on your document, having specified the bibliography style,cited your reference material and listed the relevant BibTeX database(s). You then runBibTeX, and after running LaTeX twice more the bibliography should be complete. After achange to your citations you have to run LaTeX once, BibTeX once, and then LaTeX twicemore to get an updated set of references.The format and potential contents of a BibTeX database file (a bib file) are specified indetail in Lamport [Lam94] and the first of the Companions [MG + 04]. Alternatively there isthe documentation by Oren Patashnik [Pat88a] who wrote the BibTeX program.A BibTeX style, specified in a bst file, is written using an anonymous stack based languagecreated specifically for this purpose. If you can’t find a BibTeX style that provideswhat you want you can either use the makebst [Dal99b] package which leads you throughcreating your own style via a question and answer session, or you can directly write yourown. If you choose the latter approach then Patashnik’s Designing BibTeX files [Pat88b] isessential reading. As he says, it is best to take an existing style and modify it rather thanstarting from scratch.17.2 INDEXIt is time to take a closer look at indexing. The class allows multiple indexes and an indexmay be typeset as a single or a double column.The general process is to put indexing commands into your source text, and LaTeX willwrite this raw indexing data to an idx file. The raw index data is then processed, not byLaTeX but by yourself if you have plenty of spare time on your hands, or more usually bya separate program, to create a sorted list of indexed items in a second file (usually an indfile). This can then be input to LaTeX to print the sorted index data.17.2.1 Printing an index\makeindex[〈file〉]\printindex[〈file〉]302