Research Methods and Techniques

Lecture 4

Literature Survey 2

© 2004, J S Sventek, University of Glasgow

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Reminders/Notices Web site:

www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~joe/Teaching/RMaT.html Course director: Prof J S Sventek

joe@dcs.gla.ac.uk Assignment due next Thursday, 28 Oct 2004

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Where to look for references

CiteSeerwww.citeseer.com

ACM Digital Libraryhttp://portal.acm.org

IEEE Xplorehttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/basicsearch.jsp

Googlewww.google.com

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What is an annotated bibliography? a list of citations to books, articles, and documents each citation is followed by a brief (usually about

150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph – the annotation

the purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.

annotations vs abstracts abstracts are purely descriptive summaries, often found at

the beginning of scholarly journal articles annotations are descriptive and critical; they expose the

author’s point of view, indication of clarity and authority for the citation

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BibTeX – the tool for creating and managing annotated bibliographies

Part of the LaTeX collection of document preparation and formatting tools

You create one or more bibliographic databases; each database is a named file – e.g. databasename.bib

Each database consists of one or more bibliographic entries; each entry has a key and one or more name = “value” attributes

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Example bibliographic entry @article{ alvarez01minerva,

author = "Guillermo A. Alvarez and Elizabeth Borowsky and Susie Go and Theodore H. Romer and Ralph Becker-Szendy and Richard Golding and Arif Merchant and Mirjana Spasojevic and Alistair Veitch and John Wilkes", title = "Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems", journal = "ACM Transactions on Computer Systems", volume = "19", number = "4", pages = "483--518", year = "2001", annote = "This is some annotation text", url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/alvarez01minerva.html" }

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Legal entries in bibliographic database files The following terms may follow the @ in a .bib file:

article (from a journal or magazine) book conference (or inproceedings) inbook (part of a book) incollection (part of a book with its own title) manual (technical documentation) mastersthesis phdthesis proceedings techreport unpublished misc (for everything else)

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Citing a bibliographic entry The first field following the opening { in an entry is the key for

the entry. To cite that reference in your text, use text like the following:

this is some text to be cited~cite{thekey} and more text to follow

The ~ preceding cite{} prevents a line break before the reference in brackets.

If you wish to force a particular reference to appear in the bibliography, \nocite{thekey} anywhere in your text will do the trick

If you wish to force all entries in the database to be listed, use \nocite{*}

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Creating the bibliography in your document Include in your .tex file the following two lines where

you want the bibliography to appear

\bibliographystyle{STYLE}\bibliography{bibdatabase1[,bibdatabase2,…]}

STYLE can be any built-in bibliography style (plain, alpha, abbrv, unsrt) or a specific style that you download from the web or create yourself. If you omit the \bibliographystyle{} command, the default style is plain.

bibdatabaseN can be the name of any bibliographic database file on LaTeX’s search path, but without the .bib extension

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How to generate the bibliography document

Assume that the bibliography database is in mytest.bib and that your document to produce the printed bibliography is mytest.tex. You need to execute the following sequence of commands:

% latex mytest% bibtex mytest% latex mytest% latex mytest

This produces mytest.dvi, which you can now display, print, …

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sample.tex

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\bibliographystyle{<style>}

\section{Introduction}This is a sample bibliography.\nocite{*}

\bibliography{sample}

\end{document}