Creating a bibliography
The traditional method of producing a bibliography, or a list of references, uses BibTeX. This is an external program for building a bibliography from a plain text database with a chosen style and citing references in the text.
LaTeX Beginner’s Guide, Second Edition has a BibTeX tutorial for creating bibliographies. Refer to this guide for learning about the classic way. In our cookbook, we will use an advanced package called biblatex, which is generally considered to be the successor of BibTeX.
Here’s why biblatex stands out:
- It is a complete reimplementation of LaTeX’s standard bibliographic features
- It supports the BibTeX database format but understands further formats
biblatex entirely uses TeX macros for formatting. BibTeX styles, in contrast, are programmed in a postfix stack language. So, for customizing styles with biblatex, you don’t need to learn another language. There are more benefits:
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