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Format of numbers in the bibliography.

By default, LaTeX makes entries in the bibliography look like:

[1] Doe, Joe et al. Some journal. 2004. [2] Doe, Jane et al. Some journal. 2003.

while many documents need something like:

  • Doe, Joe et al. Some journal. 2004.
  • Doe, Jane et al. Some journal. 2003.

This sort of change may be achieved by many of the “general” citation packages; for example, in natbib , it’s as simple as:

but if you’re not using such a package, the following internal LaTeX commands, in the preamble of your document, will do the job:

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When using BiBTeX , the bibliography style is set and the bibliography file is imported with the following two commands:

where bibfile is the name of the bibliography .bib file, without the extension, and stylename is one of values shown in the table below .

Here is an example that you can open in Overleaf—the .bib file is created for you:

 Open in Overleaf (a suitable .bib file is generated)

Table of stylename values

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References numbering in order of appearance.

Post by astronut » Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:00 am

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Post by astronut » Wed Dec 11, 2013 6:37 pm

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