Gregory M. Kapfhammer

Managing Bibliographies with BibTeX and LaTeX

We are going to investigate the steps that must be taken to create and manage bibliographies using BibTeX and LaTeX. Please follow these steps to complete the tutorial.

1. Download the file cs580Tutorial.tar.gz.

2. Decompress the archive using

   tar xvfz cs580Tutorial.tar.gz

   . This will create a directory called

   cs580Tutorial

   that contains the entire LaTeX source of the paper entitled A Family of Test Adequacy Criteria for Database-Driven Applications.

3. Change into the

   cs580Tutorial/

   directory and browse through the source of the

   database_testing_splash.tex

   and the

   database_testing_splash.bib

   . Our goal is to create a PDF of this document by following these steps:

   1. latex database_testing_splash.tex

   2. bibtex database_testing_splash

   3. latex database_testing_splash.tex

   4. xdvi database_testing_splash.dvi

   5. dvips -tletter database_testing_splash.dvi

   6. ps2pdf database_testing_splash.ps

   7. xpdf database_testing_splash.pdf

4. Try to use the

   reftex-mode

   module in

   emacs

   and then place a new citation inside of the paper. You should begin by using the menu item that appears after you press

   ESC X reftex-mode

   and then later learn the relevant key combinations.

5. The ACM Computing Classification System contains a very useful classification of computer science scholarship. Browse through the system and find an area that is of interest to you. When you have found it, go to the board and write down your name and your selected area.

6. The ACM Digital Library contains many papers from conference proceedings and journals that might be of interest to you. Browse through these online resources and find at least five papers that are of interest to you and relevant to your selected area.

7. Download the tutorial_shell.tex and use this to write one or two paragraphs about the five papers that you have selected. You can view this as a simple "related work" section of your senior thesis.

8. You will have to create a file called

   tutorial_shell.bib

   and place the appropriate references inside of this file. Make sure that you extend your .tex file to create a bibliography.

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