BibTeX

Preparing the LaTeX List of Publications from the SPIRES BibTeX output

If you have a bib file that you wish to convert to add in the Citations tags, or that you wish to update with journal information, just send it to:

       To: slaclib2@slac.stanford.edu
       Subject: generate bibtex
       

and the file will come back with Citation tags embedded. You'll then just need one of the special bst files, and you will be ready.

Instructions

1. Copy the Spires output with the list of your articles in the BibTeX format to a file called, e.g., spires.bib. (Delete a header and possible html markup at the top and bottom).eg

   @Article{Alvarez-Gaume:1996gd,
        author    = "Luis Alvarez-Gaume and Jacques Distler and Costas Kounnas
                     and Marcos Marino",
        title     = "Large Softly broken {$N=2$} {QCD}",
        journal   = "Int. J. Mod. Phys.",
        volume    = "A11",
        year      = "1996",
        pages     = "4745-4777",
        eprint    = "hep-th/9604004",
        SLACcitation  = "%%CITATION = IMPAE,A11,4745;%%"
   }
   

   Note, the curly braces around the equations and the acronyms (as in {QCD}) are necessary to protect them from being changed by the bib style files (e.g. QCD -> Qcd). So if they don't appear you should add them.
2. Choose from a variety of bst files from here. You can use many other BibTeX style files, but the one listed above will handle correctly the citation and eprint fields in the Spires output.
3. Prepare a simple file called, e.g., mywork.tex. It should have the following form:

    
   \documentclass[12pt]{article}   %or use your favorite doc class
   \renewcommand\refname{My Wonderful Publications}       %change as needed
   \begin{document}
      \nocite{*}                   %this uses *everything* in the .bib file
      \bibliography{spires}        %or whatever your .bib file is
      \bibliographystyle{utphys}   %if you use utphys.bst
   \end{document}   
   
   

4. to process the file, use several "latex" and "bibtex" commands. Particularly, for the file named mywork.tex (above), do the following:

   latex mywork
   bibtex mywork
   latex mywork             (twice!)
   latex mywork
   
   

5. If everything worked well, you now have the mywork.dvi file that you can send to a printer or turn into a postscript file. Check and see what changes have to be done to the original .bib file (some titles and author names will likely have to be changed from the Spires ascii form to the real TeX markup). Redo step [4] if needed.

Acknowledgment: The instructions are based on the suggestion of Jacques Distler. We are grateful for his interest and help! You can find a helpful introduction to BibTeX, courtesy of Jenny Williams. If you can refine the procedure (while still keeping it simple), please let us know!