When working with Bibtex, manually transferring the citation information for articles, prooceedings, books, etc. can be a tedious work. Some web sites provide citations in Bibtex format. What are your favorite sites to get Bibtex citations of your used references?
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This problem crops up all the time when you have citations in your captions, or probably less commonly in document division titles. By default, LaTeX uses the citations in the List of Figures, List of Tables, or Table of Contents as the "first" citation, since it occurs before the main body text.
Options to fix this include:
- Adding the
notoccitepackage to your preamble. - The
\ignorecitefornumberingcommand as shown in Get BibTeX to ignore citation numbering in a figure caption does largely the same thing as notoccite. - Modifying the offending captions to have the form
\caption[Caption without citation that appears in the List of Figures or Tables]{Caption with citation that appears with the figure or table itself}
If it were up to me, I'd go with option 1. Some editors or thesis committees may be happier with option 2. Example of option 1 (including natbib for \citeauthor command) follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{notoccite}
% If you have \cite commands in \section-like commands, or in \caption, the
% citation will also appear in the table of contents, or list of whatever.
% If you are also using an unsrt-like bibliography style, these citations
% will come at the very start of the bibliography, which is confusing. This
% package suppresses the effect.
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{foo,
author = {Foo},
title = {Title of Foo},
}
@misc{bar,
author = {Bar},
title = {Title of Bar},
}
@misc{baz,
author = {Baz},
title = {Title of Baz},
}
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
%\chapter{Introduction}
\section{The Beginning}
Here we cite \citeauthor{foo} \cite{foo}.
Now we cite \citeauthor{bar} \cite{bar}.
Finally, we cite \citeauthor{baz} \cite{baz}.
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\framebox[0.5\textwidth]{Here's a figure.}
\caption{Figure from \cite{bar}, which should most definitely \textbf{not}
be numbered [1] in the LoF}
\end{figure}
\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\end{document}
For me, I do not use a single source, rather a combination of resources and techniques. Actually, there are a number of tools or resources you can use under the circumstances.
- Documents searched through Cite Seer X will have a BibTeX entry at the right hand side of screen. Perhaps this is the most comprehensive one.
- If your area of interest is computer science, you will find both DBLP and The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies useful. The search function is effective and simple, and you get the BibTeX entry without much extra effort.
- Entries in ACM Digital Library all has BibTeX entries. Please look at the right hand side of screen.
- I am not sure which BibTeX entries in Google Scholar you are referring to. If you click on the actual publisher site (not the unreliable download link which may or may not appear at the right hand site), you will often find BibTeX entries in the publisher site. The point is also applicable in the previous case.
- If you use menedely as your reference management tool, citing a paper from your personal collection is very easy.
Please see here how you can do this in mendeley. You can even generate a .bib file in one go, which is rather nice. Other reference management tools like Papers, EndNote, or Zotero should have similar functionalities, I am not very sure.
Best Answer
Here's my compilation of the suggestions given. Feel free to edit in other suggestions as appropriate, in addition to posting each suggestion in a separate answer. Note that this list is manually updated and may not include all the links posted in other answers. If you find some other answer helpful, please upvote it as well.
General-purpose reference collections that provide BibTeX citations
Subject-specific collections that provide BibTeX citations
Reference managers that allow BibTeX export/import
Browser Extensions
Google Chrome
Firefox
Please keep in mind that the .bib entries generated by some online services may have shortcomings and that it is a good idea to check the exported references manually. Moewe suggests to see Software-generated bibliographic entries: common errors and other mistakes to check before use