About bibtex
    JabRef helps you work with your
    bibtex databases, but there are still rules to keep in
    mind when editing your entries, to ensure that your database is
    treated properly by the bibtex program.
    Bibtex fields
    There is a lot of different
    fields in bibtex, and some additional fields that you
    can set in JabRef.
    Generally, you can use LaTeX commands inside of fields
    containing text. Bibtex will automatically format your
    reference lists, and those fields that are included in the
    lists will be (de)capitalized according to your bibliography
    style. To ensure that certain characters remain capitalized,
    enclose them in braces, like in the word {B}elgium.
    Notes about some of the field types:
    
        - Bibtexkey
        A unique string used to refer to the entry in LaTeX
        documents. Note that when referencing an entry from LaTeX,
        the key must match case-sensitively with the reference
        string.
- address
 Usually the address of
        the publisher or other type of institution. For
        major publishing houses, van Leunen recommends
        omitting the information entirely. For small publishers, on
        the other hand, you can help the reader by giving the
        complete address.
- annote
 An annotation. It is not
        used by the standard bibliography styles, but may be used
        by others that produce an annotated bibliography.
- author
 This field should contain
        the complete author list for your entry. The names are
        separated by the word and, even if there are more
        than two authors. Each name can be written in two
        equivalent forms:
 Donald E. Knuth or Knuth, Donald E.
 Eddie van Halen or van Halen, Eddie
 The second form should be used for authors with more than
        two names, to differentiate between middle names and last
        names.
- booktitle
 Title of a book, part
        of which is being cited. For book entries, use the
        title field instead.
- chapter
 A chapter (or section or
        whatever) number.
- crossref
 The database key of the
        entry being cross referenced.
- edition
 The edition of a
        book--for example, ``Second''. This should be an ordinal,
        and should have the first letter capitalized, as shown
        here; the standard styles convert to lower case when
        necessary.
- editor
 This field is analogue to
        the author field. If there is also an
        author field, then the editor field gives
        the editor of the book or collection in which the reference
        appears.
- howpublished
 How something
        strange has been published. The first word should be
        capitalized.
- institution
 The sponsoring
        institution of a technical report.
- journal
 A journal name. The name
        of a journal can be abbreviated using a "string". To define
        such string, use the string
        editor.
- key
 Used for alphabetizing,
        cross referencing, and creating a label when the ``author''
        information is missing. This field should not be confused
        with the key that appears in the\citecommand
        and at the beginning of the database entry.
- month
 The month in which the
        work was published or, for an unpublished work, in which it
        was written. You should use the standard three-letter
        abbreviation (jan, feb, mar, apr, may, jun, jul, aug, sep,
        oct, nov, dec).
- note
 Any additional information
        that can help the reader. The first word should be
        capitalized.
- number
 The number of a journal, magazine, technical report, or of
        a work in a series. An issue of a journal or magazine is
        usually identified by its volume and number; the
        organization that issues a technical report usually gives
        it a number; and sometimes books are given numbers in a
        named series.
- organization
 The organization
        that sponsors a conference or that publishes a manual.
- pages
 One or more page numbers
        or range of numbers, such as 42-111 or
        7,41,73-97 or 43+ (the `+' in
        this last example indicates pages following that don't form
        a simple range). To make it easier to maintain
        Scribe-compatible databases, the standard styles
        convert a single dash (as in 7-33) to the double
        dash used in TeX to denote number ranges (as in
        7-33).
- publisher
 The publisher's
        name.
- school
 The name of the school
        where a thesis was written.
- series
 The name of a series or
        set of books. When citing an entire book, the
        title field gives its title and an optional
        series field gives the name of a series or
        multi-volume set in which the book is published.
- title
 The work's title. The
        capitalization may depend on the bibliography style and on
        the language used. For words that have to be capitalized
        (such as a proper noun), enclose the word (or its first
        letter) in braces.
- type
 The type of a technical
        report--for example, ``Research Note''.
- volume
 The volume of a journal
        or multivolume book.
- year
 The year of publication or,
        for an unpublished work, the year it was written. Generally
        it should consist of four numerals, such as 1984,
        although the standard styles can handle any year
        whose last four nonpunctuation characters are numerals,
        such as `(about 1984)'. This field is required for most
        entry types.
    Other fields
    BibTeX is extremely popular, and many
    people have used it to store information. Here is a list of
    some of the more common fields:
    
        - 
        
        affiliation*
 The authors
        affiliation.
 
 
- abstract
 An abstract of the
        work.
 
 
- doi
 The Digital Object
        Identifier, a permanent identifier given to
        documents.
 
 
- eid
 The Electronic identifier is
        for electronic journals that also appear in print. This
        number replaces the page number, and is used to find the
        article within the printed volume. Sometimes also called
        citation number.
 
 
- 
        
        contents*
 A Table of Contents
 
 
- 
        
        copyright*
 Copyright
        information.
 
 
- 
        
        ISBN*
 The International Standard Book
        Number.
 
 
- 
        
        ISSN*
 The International Standard
        Serial Number. Used to identify a journal.
 
 
- keywords
 Key words used for
        searching or possibly for annotation.
 
 
- 
        
        language*
 The language the document
        is in.
 
 
- 
        
        location*
 A location associated with
        the entry, such as the city in which a conference took
        place.
 
 
- 
        
        LCCN*
 The Library of Congress Control
        Number. I've also seen this as lib-congress.
 
 
- 
        
        mrnumber*
 The Mathematical
        Reviews number.
 
 
- 
        
        price*
 The price of the
        document.
 
 
- 
        
        size*
 The physical dimensions of a
        work.
 
 
- URL
 The WWW Uniform Resource
        Locator that points to the item being referenced. This
        often is used for technical reports to point to the ftp
        site where the postscript source of the report is
        located.
JuraBib
    
        - urldate
 The date of the last
        page visit.
     *) not direct supported by JabRef
     
    Hints on fields
    
    An institution name should be inside {}  brackets. If the institution name also includes its abbreviation, this abbreviation should be also in {} brackets. For instance, {The Attributed Graph Grammar System ({AGG})}.
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