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Comment créer un fichier bibliographique BibTeX?
Un fichier bibliographique BibTeX peut être comparé à une petite base de données, dont chaque entrée est composée d'éléments bibliographiques. Ces entrées peuvent être appelées par des références dans un autre document.
Chaque entrée de la bibliographie a un type et une clé unique. La bibliographie est lue par BibTeX en utilisant les détails spécifiés dans un fichier de style bibliographique. À partir de ce fichier, BibTeX détermine quels types d'entrées sont autorisés, quels champs chaque type d'entrée possède et comment formater l'ensemble de l'entrée.
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The type specifies the type of document you're making reference to; it may run all the way from things like Book and Proceedings (which may even contain other citations of type InBook or InProceedings) through dissertation styles like PhdThesis to otherwise-uncategorisable things such as Misc. The unique key is something you choose yourself : it's what you use when you want to cite an entry in the file. People commonly create a key that combines the (primary) author's name and the year of publication, possibly with a marker to distinguish publications in the same year. So, for example, the Dyson, Eddington, Davidson paper about deflection of starlight appears in my experimental bib file as Dyson20.1.
So, noting the rules of the style, you have “simply” to write a bibliography database. Fortunately, there are several tools to help in this endeavour:
- Most of the better (La)TeX-oriented editors have “BibTeX modes”.
- If you have an existing
thebibliographyenvironment, the Perl scripttex2bibwill probably help. - There are a number of BibTeX bibliography management systems available, some of which permit a graphical user interface to the task. Sadly, none seems to be available with the ordinary TeX distributions.
Tools such as Xbibfile (a graphical user interface), ebib (a database application written to run “inside” Emacs) and btOOL (a set of Perl tools for building BibTeX database handlers) are available from CTAN.
Other systems, such as RefDB, BibORB, BibDesk, pybliographer and the Java-based Bibkeeper and JabRef (which claims to supersede Bibkeeper) are only available from their development sites.
Some commercial citation-management systems will export in BibTeX format; an example is EndNote.
Data from on-line citation databases may often be translated to BibTeX format by utilities to be found on CTAN. For example, the Perl script isi2bibtex will translate citations from ISI “Web of knowledge” (a subscription service, available to UK academics via BIDS). UK academics may translate BIDS downloads using the Perl script bids.to.bibtex.
Google Scholar provides an “Import into BibTeX” tab for each reference it finds for you : that tab gives you a page containing a BibTeX entry for the reference.
