Research Methods and Techniques Lecture 4 Literature Survey 2 © 2004, J S Sventek, University of Glasgow

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 22 Reminders/Notices Web site: Course director: Prof J S Sventek Assignment due next Thursday, 28 Oct 2004 One page summary of paper 3 Lectures rescheduled OldNewRoomOther 21 Oct19 OctF171 4 Nov2 NovLT 109 Gregory Building

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 23 Where to look for references CiteSeer ACM Digital Library IEEE Xplore Google

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 24 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

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 25 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

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 26 Example bibliographic 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 = " ", year = "2001", annote = "This is some annotation text", url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/alvarez01minerva.html" }

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 27 Legal entries in bibliographic database files The following terms may follow 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(part of a book with its own title) manual (technical documentation) mastersthesis phdthesis proceedings techreport unpublished misc (for everything else)

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 28 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{*}

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 29 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

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 210 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, …

19 October 2004RMaT/Literature Survey 211 sample.tex \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \bibliographystyle{ } \section{Introduction} This is a sample bibliography. \nocite{*} \bibliography{sample} \end{document}