[Tex/LaTex] Generate uniform references

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To generate references, I usually find the needed bibtex formats for references in Google Scholar, which may gives the following references:

B.K. Chun, D.S. Ryu, W.I. Hwang, and H.G. Cho. 2006. An automated procedure for word balloon placement in cinema comics.
Advances in Visual Computing (2006), 576–585.

Anastasios Dimou, Olivia Nemethova, and Markus Rupp. 2005. Scene change detection for H. 264 using dynamic threshold
techniques. In Proc. of the 5th EURASIP Conference on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and
Service, Smolenice, Slovac Republic.

As you can see from the above example, the two references are not consistent, for example, their names format are different. How could I generate uniform references like the following:

Chun, B.K., Ryu, D.S., Hwang, W.I., and Cho, H.G. 2006. An automated procedure for word balloon placement in cinema comics. Advances in Visual Computing 576–585.

Dimou, A., Nemethova, O., and Rupp, M. 2005. Scene change detection for H. 264 using dynamic threshold techniques. In Proc. of the 5th EURASIP Conference on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Service, Smolenice, Slovac Republic.

P.S. It seems it's not easy to find all consistent bibtex formats for them in Google Scholar especially when the number of references are large.

Any help will be much appreciated.

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I finally found the way to make it consistent without manually editing.

Because I am writing a ACM journal paper of the Large Format Single Column, it actually offers a bibtex style called acmlarge that I can use to achieve this automatically. So by changing

\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format-Journals}

\bibliographystyle{acmlarge}

I am able to generate the following consistent references:

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Note: The above method may be only applicable for writing specific ACM journal papers. We may still need manually editing, as @cfr and @vonbrand commented, if the default template doesn't offer such options to us.

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To get something in the references, you have to cite it. The generic command for this is \cite, and the argument to the command is what you have called notsurewhatitisfor in your bibfile. In other words, you want this key to be different for each entry in your bib-file, and then you can use \cite{notsurewhatitisfor} to cite that article/book/whatever.

If you don't want to put a reference in your text, just fill up the References section with all the entries in your bibfile, you can use \nocite{*}.

Another thing to note, is if one doesn't use an IDE/script that handles the compilation sequence, one has to compile the document in four steps to have the bibliography and citations show up correctly. TeXlipse does this for you, but if it didn't, you would have to go through the following sequence:

pdflatex file.tex
bibtex file.aux
pdflatex file.tex
pdflatex file.tex

Roughly what happens is this:

On the first run of pdflatex (or latex, xelatex, lualatex), every occurrence of a \cite command will be written to a temporary file, called file.aux.
When you run bibtex on this file (specifying the file ending, .aux isn't necessary), the BibTeX program will find all these occurrences in the .aux file, find the entries in the .bib file corresponding to them, and write a .bbl file that contains the References section, with the entries sorted according to the bibliography style you have chosen.
On the second rund of pdflatex, this .bbl file will be read, and the References section will be printed in the document.
On the final run of pdflatex the citations will be put in.

As mentioned, I guess TeXlipse does all of this for you automatically if necessary, but I thought it could be nice to add a quick explanation of what's happening.

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General Edit : IEEEtran is just for the author's convenience to get an idea of the approximate end product. The house-style of IEEE is not released and your (journal) article will be modified by the editors and copy-editors of the publication office. So no need to super tune your article, balance columns adjust biographies etc. when you are submitting the final version. A rough idea of what is what is enough.

Having said that I've removed my previous comment as it might be understood as it's Michael Shell's fault which is something that I would not even think. I'm not happy with IEEE and its workflow, that's about it.

First of all, IEEE is really bad with conference style (I should probably say that the IEEEtran is getting old pretty fast.) and many conferences encourage their users to download the ieeeconf style from various sources. However, the following is not giving me any errors:

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{filecontents,lipsum}
\usepackage[noadjust]{cite}
\begin{filecontents*}{references.bib}
@article{Khoe:1994:CML:2288694.2294265,
    author = {Khoe, G. -D.},
    title = {Coherent multicarrier lightwave technology for flexible capacity networks},
    journal = {Comm. Mag.},
    issue_date = {March 1994},
    volume = {32},
    number = {3},
    month = mar,
    year = {1994},
    issn = {0163-6804},
    pages = {22--33},
    numpages = {12},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/35.267438},
    doi = {10.1109/35.267438},
    acmid = {2294265},
    publisher = {IEEE Press},
    address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\title{This document}
\author{This author}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}

\lipsum[2-6]
I have cited this document \cite{Khoe:1994:CML:2288694.2294265}

\bibliographystyle{ieeetran}
\bibliography{references}
\end{document}

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