MIKTEX-BIBTEX(1)

NAME
miktex-bibtex - make a bibliography for LaTeX

SYNOPSIS

miktex-bibtex [option...] auxfile

DESCRIPTION

This man page is an adaption of the corresponding TeX Live man page.

BibTeX reads the top-level auxiliary (.aux) file that was output during the running of miktex-latex(1)miktex-tex(1) and creates a bibliography (.bbl) file that will be incorporated into the document on subsequent runs of LaTeX or TeX.

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 reference 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

--alias=name
    Pretend to be program name, i.e., set program (and memory dump) name to name. This may affect the search paths and other values used. Using this option is equivalent to copying the program file to name and invoking name.

--disable-installer
    Disable automatic installation of packages. Specifying this option overrules settings in the MiKTeX configuration data store.

--enable-installer
    Enable automatic installation of packages. Specifying this option overrules settings in the MiKTeX configuration data store.

--help
    Give help and exit.

--hhelp
    This option is only available on Windows systems: show the manual page in an HTML Help window and exit when the window is closed.

--include-directory=dir
    Add the directory dir to the head of the list of directories to be searched for input files.

--min-crossrefs=n
    Defines the minimum number of crossrefs required for automatic inclusion of the crossref'd entry on the citation list; the default is two.

--quiet
    Suppress all output, except errors.

--record-package-usages=file
    Record all package usages and write them into file.

--trace[=tracestreams]
    Enable trace messages. The tracestreams argument, if specified, is a comma-separated list of trace stream names (Chapter 9, Trace Streams).

--version
    Show version information and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

BIBINPUTS
    Extra paths to locate .bib files.

BSTINPUTS
    Extra paths to locate .bst files.

MIKTEX_TRACE
    Comma-separated list of trace stream names (see Chapter 9, Trace Streams). If this variable is set, then MiKTeX programs will write trace messages into the configured log sink.

SEE ALSO
miktex-latex(1), miktex-tex(1) 978-0201529838. LaTeX: A Document Preparation System. 2nd Edition. Leslie Lamport. Addison-Wesley. 1994.