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bibliography

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• two types of declarations:
  1. simple bibliography

     % ...
     \begin{document}
     % ...
     \begin{thebibliography}{LONGEST_KEY}
     \bibitem[KEY]{KEY} <entry>
     \end{thebibliography}
     % ...
     \end{document}
     

  2. proper bibliography

     % ...
     \bibliographystyle{plain}
     % ...
     \begin{document}
     % ...
     \bibliography{BIBFILE}
     % ...
     \end{document}
     

     you will have to create a BIBFILE.bib in the current directory.

• referencing bibliography items:

  \cite{KEY}
  

• bibtex command line:

  bibtex <file>
  

  by setting the environment variable BIBINPUTS you can save your .bib file in a different directory

  see also compiling tex documents