NAME
          bibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX

     SYNOPSIS
          bibtex [ -min-crossrefs=number ] [ -verbose ] [ auxname ]

     DESCRIPTION
          BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file that was
          output during the running of latex(1) or tex(1) and creates
          a bibliography (.bbl) file that will be incorporated into
          the document on subsequent runs of LaTeX or TeX.  The
          auxname on the command line must be given without the .aux
          extension.  If you don't give the auxname, the program
          prompts you for it.

          BibTeX looks up, in bibliographic database (.bib) files
          specified by the \bibliography command, the entries
          specified by the \cite and \nocite commands in the LaTeX or
          TeX source file.  It formats the information from those
          entries according to instructions in a bibliography style
          (.bst) file (specified by the \bibliographystyle command,
          and it outputs the results to the .bbl file.

          The LaTeX manual explains what a LaTeX source file must
          contain to work with BibTeX.  Appendix B of the manual
          describes the format of the .bib files. The `BibTeXing'
          document describes extensions and details of this format,
          and it gives other useful hints for using BibTeX.

     OPTIONS
          The -min-crossrefs option defines the minimum number of
          crossref required for automatic inclusion of the crossref'd
          entry on the citation list; the default is two. Without the
          -verbose option, BibTeX operates silently.  With it, a
          banner and progress reports are printed on stdout.

     ENVIRONMENT
          BibTeX searches the directories in the path defined by the
          BSTINPUTS environment variable for .bst files. If BSTINPUTS
          is not set, it uses TEXINPUTS; and if TEXINPUTS is not set,
          it uses the system default:
          @DEFAULT_BST_PATH@
          For .bib files, it uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable
          if that is set, otherwise the default:
          @DEFAULT_BIB_PATH@
          See tex(1) for the details of the searching.

          If the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT is set, BibTeX
          attempts to put its output files in it, if they cannot be
          put in the current directory.  Again, see tex(1).  No
          special searching is done for the .aux file.

     FILES
          *.bst        Bibliography style files.

          btxdoc.tex   ``BibTeXing'' - LaTeXable documentation for
                       general BibTeX users

          btxhak.tex   ``Designing BibTeX Styles'' - LaTeXable
                       documentation for style designers

          btxdoc.bib   database file for those two documents

          xampl.bib    database file giving examples of all standard
                       entry types

          btxbst.doc   template file and documentation for the
                       standard styles

          All those files should be available somewhere on your
          system.

          The host math.utah.edu has a vast collection of .bib files
          available for anonymous ftp, including references for all
          the standard TeX books and a complete bibliography for
          TUGboat.

     SEE ALSO
          latex(1), tex(1).
          Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System,
          Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.

     AUTHOR
          Oren Patashnik, Stanford University.  This man page
          describes the web2c version of BibTeX.  Other ports of
          BibTeX, such as Donald Knuth's version using the Sun Pascal
          compiler, do not have the same path searching
          implementation, or the command-line options.