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Citation management with LaTeX

Build a reference library and use it consistently in a LaTeX document.

This workshop follows a reference from discovery to a finished bibliography. It combines practical work with bibliography entries and citation keys, reference management in JabRef, and the differences between BibTeX, natbib and BibLaTeX with Biber.

What we cover

Finding references and checking imported metadata.
Choosing entry types, writing author names and using stable citation keys.
Managing a .bib library and citing sources in a document.
Compilation workflows and changing between citation systems.

Before you start

Basic familiarity with a LaTeX document is useful. The exercise archive includes a starting document and a bibliography file; a separate archive contains worked solutions.

Course materials

Original materials from the earlier citation-management workshop. Some service names and external links reflect the 2016 teaching materials.

Citation-management slides ↓ PDF · 40 pages
Workflow, reference-management examples and five practical exercises.
Reference exercises ↓ ZIP · LaTeX & BibTeX
A starting main.tex document and references.bib file.
Worked solutions ↓ ZIP · LaTeX & BibTeX
The completed example document and bibliography for the exercises.