[Journal] Questions on LaTex paragraph command, format for citations, and SVN naming convention.

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I will honestly admit that Micha and Markus have lost me on the
citation lingo. If we can adopt a standard format for citations and
references I will make sure I use them when converting articles to
LaTex. (I prefer as "human readable" citations as we can get.)

Is bibtex a different program from latex, or is it a latex package?

Landon

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
> On 24/02/2010 10:07, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>> Landon, all,
>>
>>
>> I personally don't like very much the [xx] citation style as it is not
>> human readable.
>> I didn't check the current state but "natural citation" style is much
>> easier to follow.
>> To get that:
>>
>> \usepackage[authoryear,round]{natbib}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>> ...
>>
>>
>> I have opened Victor's text about sextante and seen:
>>
>> ... \cite{Beven:1979} ...
>>
>> If you want braces and author-year citation as indicated above, then
>> change to
>>
>> ... \citep{Beven:1979} ...
>>
>>
>
> Thanks, Markus.
> I'll fix those this evening.
>
>> (there are also these here:
>> \citet*{key}             Jones, Baker, and Smith (1990)
>> \citet{key}              Jones et al. (1990)
>> \citep*{key}             (Jones, Baker, and Smith, 1990)
>> \citep[ch.~2]{key}       (Jones et al., 1990, ch. 2)
>> \citep[e.g.][]{key}      (e.g. Jones et al., 1990)
>> \citep[e.g.][p.~32]{key} (e.g. Jones et al., p. 32)
>> \citeauthor{key}         Jones et al.
>> \citeauthor*{key}        Jones, Baker, and Smith
>> \citeyear{key}           1990
>> )
>>
>>
>> To activate the bibliography, add
>>
>> %References
>> % Note: if needed, shrink space between bibtex items with \bibsep
>> %         and  \setstretch{0.88} % less line space
>>
>> \bibliographystyle{plainnat}
>> \bibliography{mybiblio}
>> \end{document}
>>
>> Since I am lazy, I have written a Makefile for me to run bibtex and latex
>> to get all compiled with a single "make" command (it loops over until
>> it is stable).
>>
>> There is a package to make per-article references, have to check how it
>> is called.
>>
>> Does this help?
>> Markus
>>
>>
>
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