-- An article from a journal or magazine. @article{label, required: author, title, journal, year optional: volume, number, pages, month, note } -- A book with an explicit publisher. @book{label, required: author or editor, title, publisher, year optional: volume, number, series, address, edition, month, note } -- A work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution. @booklet{label, required: title optional: author, howpublished, address, month, year, note } -- A part of a book, which may be a chapter (or section or whatever) and/or a range of pages. @inbook{label, required: author or editor, title, chapter and/or pages, publisher, year optional: volume or number, series, type, address, edition, month, note } -- A part of a book having its own title. @incollection{label, required: author, title, booktitle, publisher, year optional: editor, volume or number, series, type, chapter, pages, address, edition, month, note } -- An article in a conference proceedings. @inproceedings{label, required: author, title, booktitle, year optional: editor, volume or number, series, pages, address, month, organization, publisher, note } -- Technical documentation. @manual{label, required: title optional: author, organization, address, edition, month, year, note } -- A Master's thesis. @mastersthesis{label, required: author, title, school, year optional: type, address, month, note } -- Use this type when nothing else fits. @misc{label, required: optional: author, title, howpublished, month, year, note } -- A PhD thesis. @phdthesis{label, required: author, title, school, year optional: type, address, month, note } -- The proceedings of a conference. @proceedings{label, required: title, year optional: editor, volume or number, series, address, month, organization, publisher, note } -- A report published by a school or other institution, usually numbered within a series. @techreport{label, required: author, title, institution, year optional: type, number, address, month, note } -- A document having an author and title, but not formally published. @unpublished{label, required: author, title, note optional: month, year } -- address Usually the address of the publisher or other type of institution. For major publishing houses, van~Leunen recommends omitting the information entirely. For small publishers, on the other hand, you can help the reader by giving the complete address. -- annote An annotation. It is not used by the standard bibliography styles, but may be used by others that produce an annotated bibliography. -- author The name(s) of the author(s), in the format described in the \LaTeX\ book. -- booktitle Title of a book, part of which is being cited. See the \LaTeX\ book for how to type titles. For book entries, use the \hbox{\tt title} field instead. -- chapter A chapter (or section or whatever) number. -- crossref The database key of the entry being cross referenced. -- edition The edition of a book---for example, ``Second''$\!$. This should be an ordinal, and should have the first letter capitalized, as shown here; the standard styles convert to lower case when necessary. -- editor Name(s) of editor(s), typed as indicated in the \LaTeX\ book. If there is also an author field, then the editor field gives the editor of the book or collection in which the reference appears. -- howpublished How something strange has been published. The first word should be capitalized. -- institution The sponsoring institution of a technical report. -- journal A journal name. Abbreviations are provided for many journals; see the {\it Local Guide}. -- key Used for alphabetizing, cross referencing, and creating a label when the ``author'' information (described in Section~\ref{odds-and-ends}) is missing. This field should not be confused with the key that appears in the \hbox{\verb|\cite|} command and at the beginning of the database entry. -- month The month in which the work was published or, for an unpublished work, in which it was written. You should use the standard three-letter abbreviation, as described in Appendix B.1.3 of the \LaTeX\ book. -- note Any additional information that can help the reader. The first word should be capitalized. -- number The number of a journal, magazine, technical report, or of a work in a series. An issue of a journal or magazine is usually identified by its volume and number; the organization that issues a technical report usually gives it a number; and sometimes books are given numbers in a named series. -- organization The organization that sponsors a conference or that publishes a \hbox{manual}. -- pages One or more page numbers or range of numbers, such as \hbox{\tt 42--111} or \hbox{\tt 7,41,73--97} or \hbox{\tt 43+} (the `{\tt +}' in this last example indicates pages following that don't form a simple range). To make it easier to maintain {\em Scribe\/}-compatible databases, the standard styles convert a single dash (as in \hbox{\tt 7-33}) to the double dash used in \TeX\ to denote number ranges (as in \hbox{\tt 7--33}). -- publisher The publisher's name. -- school The name of the school where a thesis was written. -- series The name of a series or set of books. When citing an entire book, the the \hbox{\tt title} field gives its title and an optional \hbox{\tt series} field gives the name of a series or multi-volume set in which the book is published. -- title The work's title, typed as explained in the \LaTeX\ book. -- type The type of a technical report---for example, ``Research Note''$\!$. -- volume The volume of a journal or multivolume book. -- year The year of publication or, for an unpublished work, the year it was written. Generally it should consist of four numerals, such as {\tt 1984}, although the standard styles can handle any {\tt year} whose last four nonpunctuation characters are numerals, such as `\hbox{(about 1984)}'$\!$.