InterBib: Help page for Adding Bibliographies to Documents

General Description

Generally, citations in your documents need to be of the form '[garc89, ullm93]'. But you can use any keys you want, as long as they match the ones in your BibTeX file. In Refer, you can use the field '%L' to specify a key. If no key is specified in Refer, InterBib will construct an all lower-case key from the first four letters of the first author and the publication year. Apostrophes are left out of the key. You can also change the characters you use to delimit citations in your document.

In the full-functionality form you can specify up to four bibliography files and/or up to four URLs that point to bibliographies. By default InterBib will assume that files/URLs which end with the extension '.bib' are BibTeX files, and that extension '.ref' are Refer files/URLs. You may override this default in the submission form. InterBib also understands the InterBib citation databases that can be constructed with separate tools or which may have been saved from earlier bibliography submissions to InterBib (see below). These are faster, because they do not require the service to parse. Those databases must not have a file extension, unless you declare them to be InterBib databases in the form. The service keeps the collected bibliographies in http://www-interbib.stanford.edu/~testbed/interbib/bibliographies.

Document files may either be RTF, HTML, MIF, or Framemaker files, up to Frame 5.0. For RTF, MIF and Framemaker files, the file extension is irrelevant. InterBib examines the file content.

Description of the Form

Document submission field

Type the local path to the file that contains your document. The Browse button helps your locate it.

Bibliography anchor

Type in a word that occurs in your document. The bibliography will be placed after the last occurrence of that word. Typically this will be the heading to your bibliography section. Like 'References'. This field is case in-sensitive.

Style

This lets you determine the style of your citations and bibliographies. The most frequent computer science formats are ACM and IEEE. ACM uses numeric citations in the text (e.g. [1, 2]), and has the reference list in alphabetical order by author. IEEE also uses numeric citation keys, but the reference list is in the order in which the citations appear in the document. FullAuthorCitations uses the full names of authors and the year of publication in the text (e.g. (Aho and Ullman, 1985)). The reference list is in alphabetical order. KeyCiteAppearanceOrder uses the keys in your bibliography as citation keys in the text (e.g. [ullm86]), and puts the reference list in the order of appearance. KeyCiteKeyAlphaOrder does the same, but the reference list is in alpha order of the keys. Finally, AuthorCiteAppearanceOrder is like FullAuthorCitations, but the reference list is in order of citation appearance, instead of being alphabetical.

Bibliography file

This series of fields allows you to enter bibliography file names local to you.

File type

This lets you override the InterBib default extensions for bibliographies ('.bib' for BibTex, '.ref' for Refer, no extension for InterBib databases).

URLs

Put in URLs that point to bibliographies.

URL type

Same as file types, but for the URL

Citation delimiters

If you want to use delimiters for your citations other than '[]', you can set them here. Citation delimiters are the characters you use in your document to indicate the start and stop of citations. Like: "This was eloquently shown in [cous92, garc86]". In your final document, citations will still be delimited as required by the citation styles. The reason to change the delimiters could be that you use brackets for purposes other than citations. This would confuse the InterBib machinery, unless you specify unique delimiters here. Opening delimiters may be any number of characters.

Annotations

If you include fields 'annote' or 'comments' in your BiBTeX bibliography, or '%X' in your Refer bibliography, you have a choice of producing an annotated bibliography or one without annotations. This button lets you choose.

Permission to retain bibliography

We are trying to automatically accumulate bibliographies for you and others to use. Unless you disallow it in the form, InterBib will retain any error-free bibliographies your send and make them available to you and others as InterBib databases. They are available through the search interface. Depending on their length, it may take a a few minutes for yours to come up in the form after your document processing is done. Note that your bibliography material will only be added to the collection if it parses correctly all the way through.

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