Bibliographic references

EAGLES uses the `Harvard' style for bibliographic citations and references, and no other. This allows you to give references highly important for human knowledge by using the \cite{} command (Bresnan, 1982; Chomsky, 1981; Dowty, 1982; Dowty, 1989). This was produced with the following: \cite{bre82,chom81,dow82b,dow89}. There are even some references that are highly stimulating (Talmy, 1985). However, as Alsina & Mchombo (1988) demonstrates, you can also use a kind of `nominal' form for citations. Carpenter (1992) also shows this. Here, we used the command e.g. \citeasnoun{carp92}

Sometimes you need to give a page reference (Jackendoff, 1972, p. 52), produced as follows: \cite[p. 52]{jac72}. However, you can only do this for the \cite{} command and not for the \citeasnoun{} command, unfortunately.

Note in particular that you do no need to insert parentheses around citations yourself: these are supplied automatically.

As for EAGLES citations, these appear with institutional authors (EAGLES, 1996c). We all know that EAGLES (1996b) is an important document. There are others, too (EAGLES, 1995a; EAGLES, 1995b).

You insert the bibliographic references in a file, in bib format. The bib file that goes with the current document is called layout.bib. Please study this to see how in particular to compose bibliographic entries for EAGLES documents: we use the ``technical report'' style of BIBTeX. You should also find associated files containing templates for the main forms of bibliographic entry (i.e. supplied with the present file and with layout.bib). The template for EAGLES reports is named `er': the fields for author, institution and address are already filled in for you, thus you simply have to supply the key, the title and the document number.

The Harvard style file (harvard.sty) is included by initial.tex as is the specification of the particular citation style we have chosen for EAGLES (`dcu'). If you look at the end of this source LaTeX file you will see how to declare the bibliography for inclusion, using again the bibliography style `dcu'.

To make sure the bibliography and citations are included, you need to give the following set of commands:

  1. latex testfile
  2. bibtex testfile
  3. latex testfile
  4. latex testfile

The format of the bib file is rather simple. See the file `layout.bib'for examples.

We regret that we cannot accept bibliographies and citations in any form other than the ones specified above. In particular, the existence of a bibliographic database `.bib' file is required for ease of processing and especially for conversion to HTML. We cannot accept bibliographies specified via the \bibitem{} command of LaTeX. Please furthermore respect the conventions used by EAGLES which are amply exemplified in the file layout.bib, especially as regards use of initials, and-ing of joint authors, capitalisation, etc. One of the reasons for using a database file plus the harvard.sty is that all citations and bibliographies are then displayed with a harmonious appearance; it is also easier for the central team to keep track of EAGLES bibliographic references in bib database format rather than in any other format.

Further instructions on how to use BIBTeX and the bib format are to be found in (Lamport, 1994).


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