I want to cite a software in the following format
author name, software name, version number, year, available at url pointing to the software
in BibTex….plz help…
[Tex/LaTex] How to i use BibTex to cite a software
bibtexciting
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Here's one possibility; I used "Telespazio" in the author field, and 2010 for the year (see little text to the right, on the last page in the brochure):
\begin{filecontents*}{bbb.bib}
@misc{GCC,
year= "2010",
title = "{G}alileo {C}ontrol {C}entre",
url = "http://www.telespazio.it/docs/brodoc/GCC_eng.pdf",
howpublished = "Brochure",
author ="Telespazio"
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{url}
\begin{document}
\cite{GCC}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{bbb}
\end{document}
For the sake of argument, I'll assume that there are entries with keys Ker:2005 and Fow:1999 in your .bib file which point to the pieces by Kerievsky and Fowler, respectively.
Assuming you use the natbib citation management package, you could proceed as follows.
Load the
natbibpackage with the optionssquare(to produce square brackets around the parenthetical citations) andnumbers(to produce numeric-style citations).Use a combination of
\citepand\citealpto create the desired citation:Refactoring is "..." \citep[][cited by \citealp{Ker:2005}]{Fow:1999}.
If this syntax looks like it's going to be a bit hard to remember, you might want to define a macro named \citeprimsec in the preamble:
\newcommand{\citeprimsec}[2]{\citep[][cited by \citealp{#2}]{#1}}
and employ it in the body of the document as
Refactoring is "..." \citeprimsec{Fow:1999}{Ker:2005}.
The name of the macro will hopefully make it more or less obvious that the first argument should be the key of the primary reference and that its second argument should be the key of the secondary reference.
Addendum: I just noticed that your comment that you do not use natbib. Well, adding natbib to the list of packages you load in the preamble shouldn't be a big deal. Just be sure to load it with the options square and numbers. You needn't modify any of your existing \cite commands.
Best Answer
This answer is an adapted copy of the original one provided by Pascal on SuperUser. It is copied here as a community wiki for archival purpose.
If you use the package
biblatex, you can thus use the@softwareentry- type in your database:Produces