Update the bibliography documentation a bit.

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Bibliography
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environment, LyX add a large vertical space, followed by the heading
environment, LyX adds a large vertical space, followed by the heading
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\begin_layout Standard
For a detailed description of LyX's bibliography handling, have a look at
in section
There is another, usually better way to include references in your document,
namely, by using a BibTeX database.
For more information on that, and for a a detailed description of LyX's
bibliography handling, have a look at in section
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\begin_layout Standard
There are two ways of generating the bibliography in a LyX-document.
You can include a bibliography database
You can include a bibliography database,
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@ -25593,13 +25595,12 @@ BibTeX-database
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, which is explained in the next subsection or you can insert the bibliography
manually.
For the second method we use the paragraph environment
which is explained in the next subsection, or you can insert the bibliography
manually, using the paragraph environment
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Bibliography
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, described in section
, which was described in section
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.
If you want anything other than numerical citations, such as the ones in
this document---in particular, if you want author-year cituations---then
you
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must
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use BibTeX.
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\begin_layout Subsection
The Bibliography Environment
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\begin_layout Standard
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\begin_layout Standard
Bibliography databases are useful if you use the same bibliography in different
documents.
It makes it also very easy to have a uniform layout for all bibliography
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They are also useful simply for keeping a database of articles and notes
concerning them.
Most of the programs mentioned below will allow you to store annotations
and reviews along with bibliographical information.
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It also makes it very easy to have a uniform layout for all bibliography
entries.
You can collect the bibliography of all relevant books and articles of
your working field in a database.
This database can be used for different documents, because only the referenced
entries of the database will appear in the bibliography list.
This database can be used for different documents, and only the entries
cited in a particular document will appear in the bibliography list for
that document.
This relieves you of the need to keep track of which articles and books
you have cited.
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\begin_layout Standard
@ -25765,7 +25792,7 @@ The database is a text file with the file extension
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containing the bibliography in a special format.
, containing the bibliography in a special format.
The format is explained in LaTeX books (
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LatexCommand cite
@ -25774,14 +25801,11 @@ key "Mittelbach,Kopka,Lamport"
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).
Normally one uses a special program to create and edit entries of the database.
Under
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The file can be created using any text editor, but normally one uses a
special program to create and edit the entries in the database.
A list of such programs is maintained on the LyX wiki at
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@ -25790,11 +25814,7 @@ http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs
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you find a list of programs for bibliography databases.
.
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\begin_layout Standard
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\begin_layout Standard
The style file is a text file with the file extension
The style file is a text file with the file extension
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@ -25841,13 +25861,38 @@ The style file is a text file with the file extension
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that declares the layout of all bibliography entries.
Many publishers provide special style files, so that you don't have to
take care of the layout.
that controls how the bibliography entries will appear.
Your LaTeX distribution should provide several of these, and many publishers
provide their own style files, so that you don't have to take care of the
layout.
It is, of course, possible to write your own style file, but this is something
of a black art and is recommended only for the very brave.
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The courageous can look at the BibTeX documentation, which is available
on CTAN at
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http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/
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.
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\begin_layout Standard
Inserting a citation reference works like described above.
Inserting a citation reference works as described in the previous section.
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\begin_layout Standard
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\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
To generate the bibliography from a database, the program BibTeX is used
by LyX.
LyX uses the program BibTeX to generate the bibliography from the database,
the program BibTeX is used by LyX.
This program can be controlled with options that you can add in LyX's preferenc
es dialog under
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