BibTeXtoWord 1.8 (Mac)

Overview:

BibTeXtoWord allows MS Word users to use bibtex to handle the bibliographic references in the papers they are writing. For those who are unfamiliar with \LaTeX\ and bibtex let me explain how bibtex is used: The bibliographic references are contained in a .bib file which is simply a text file. Each entry in this data base is uniquely identified by a cite-key, which can be arbitrary with the exclusion of a few special characters. When you want to cite a bibliographic reference in \LaTeX\ you enter the command \verb!\cite{abc}! in your file, which is called the source file, where \cq{abc} is the cite-key. When bibtex is called, it reads the cite-keys, looks up the corresponding references, sorts the references alphabetically and by year, replaces the cite-keys with the corresponding labels and prints a list of references at the end of your document. These changes do not take place in your source file but in the compiled output file which is nowadays a pdf file. References that should be part of the publications list but should not be referred to in the text have to be entered as \verb!\nocite{abc}! in the source file.

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